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...stage of the war may have been prompted by a tidy piece of intelligence work. On Friday morning, Pakistani intelligence sources tell TIME, the Taliban eminence Mullah Mohammed Omar arrived in Kandahar, the regime's stronghold in southern Afghanistan. He had spent days holed up in a mountain fortress ducking U.S. bombs, and in the meantime his regime had been pummeled. When he got back to Kandahar, Omar fired two faithless deputies and passed the word that he would deliver the noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet...
...None of those acts make Americans proud. But the national ID does not even compare with those sorry episodes. In and of itself, it's neutral. We will need to use the Constitution to prevent the card from being abused. We're no longer an island anymore. Fortress America is porous. The national ID card is an idea whose time will eventually come. And, in the end, I don't think it's such a bad one after...
...Scylla of "Isn't this just television?" and the Charybdis of much early video art's stupefying dullness. She's not afraid of narrative, but it does not control the work. To watch Rapture, the viewer stands between two screens, one of men busying themselves with ladders in a fortress, the other of women pushing a boat out from a beach. The groups on the two screens interact. The meaning is open-ended...
...people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials say as many as 10,000 Afghans may have already slipped into Pakistan in recent days and are being sheltered by fellow clansmen, invisible inside the fortress-like tribal homes of the harsh borderlands...
...Even so, Musharraf had to couch his decision in religious terms, calling Pakistan a "fortress of Islam" and drawing inspiration from the Prophet Muhammad's example. Musharraf and his advisers are well aware of piety's place in Pakistan. There is a groundswell of people turning, or returning, to Islam for answers. Some do so as a rejection of America and Western values; others are seeking hope and a sense of purpose in an ever more dismal and disillusioning national scene. "This is a generation of hopelessness," says former National Assembly member Daniyal Aziz, "and people need hope...