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...this? The question has echoed over the past two months as TIME and other publications have reported grim stories from Afghanistan that are at odds with Pentagon accounts of victorious strikes against the enemy. On Dec. 20, U.S. planes rocketed a convoy of tribal elders going to Kabul for the swearing-in ceremony of Afghan leader Hamid Karza and then chased the fleeing tribesmen into a village, killing 60, say locals. On Feb. 4, a Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at a man who U.S. Central Command thought might be bin Laden. Villagers say the dead...
Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...
...Barrios ’90 were on hand to encourage the protesters. The police briefed the protesters before their arrest on the procedures they would follow. Like the Mass. Hall student sit-in last spring, the event had the air of a worker’s carnival, not a grim display of resolve in the face...
...latest attacks continued a grim downturn in the fortunes of the Israeli Defense Force in the West Bank and Gaza over the past week. Tuesday night's casualty count will be made more painful by the fact that it followed last Friday's loss of a heavily-armored Merkava-3 battle tank and three of its crewmen to a sophisticated roadside bomb in Gaza. On the same day, the commander of Israel's most feared unit on the West Bank died under the collapsing wall of a house being destroyed by his forces. The escalating body count underscores...
Over the past week, this message was plastered across campus in a postering campaign by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence. The posters also featured grim statistics, such as a 1991 figure that one in five women will be assaulted during their college careers. I don’t know whether that information is still accurate, but I don’t mean to belittle the issue—there is a burning need to stop sexual violence and to assist survivors more effectively, and the issue fully deserves the public’s attention...