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Shakespeare would envy the complexity of the scene as Afghanistan's leaders gather to bury a colleague, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Abdul Rahman, who was murdered at the Kabul airport two weeks ago. Though Karzai presides, it is apparent that while he possesses the ceremonial trappings of his office--a presidential guard and an off-tune military band--the real power lies elsewhere. Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Interior Minister Younus Qanooni both arrive for memorial prayers with a retinue of armed warriors. The assorted dignitaries remove their shoes to enter the local mosque. Karzai later notes with...
...government and military don't have total control," says an administration official. "That would lend itself to their desire to regroup and not be looking over their shoulders. The philosophy is, keep (al Qaeda) on the run... If we can continue to deny them a place where they can gather, raise funds and train, the threat will be marginalized...
...America’s governors gather together at the National Governors Association winter meeting, they may fondly remember the days before former Governor George W. Bush became the ubiquitous Dubya. After Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America tanked, the G.O.P. reinvented itself with a wave of moderate Republican governors at its helm—most notably Bush, George E. Pataki (New York), George H. Ryan (Illinois) and John M. Engler (Michigan). But now that the prodigal son has graduated from Texas to oversee the federal government in Washington, he seems to be putting the squeeze on his closest...
This week seniors have begun to celebrate the infamous “last 100 days” of their Harvard careers. For the rest of the school year, every night there will be an event at a bar for seniors to gather, reminisce about meals in Annenberg, and wax nostalgic about all of the good-ol’ college days. Even more so, the events serve as a last-ditch attempt to get the proverbial “true college experience,” to go out with a bang, remembering college as an exuberant, debauchery-filled romp that somehow...
...cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form...