Word: guns
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...Mirwais' stardom has not brought him riches. At one Kabul bazaar, music sellers offer 57 different tapes of his performances, all pirated. At a recent wedding, an Afghan thrust a boom box into the singer's face, unabashedly recording him for future sales. Copyright laws, like road safety and gun control, have not yet gained much traction in Afghanistan...
...largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." JANE FONDA, actress, apologizing for her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site in protest against the U.S. war effort, in an interview with U.S. television program 60 Minutes...
Someone (I don't remember who) leads me toward the gun, and I sit down, still laughing, still applauding. It all has nothing to do with where I am sitting. I hardly even think about where I am sitting. The cameras flash...
...traveling companion, someone with a cooler head, would have kept me from taking that terrible seat. I would have known two minutes before sitting down what I didn't realize until two minutes afterward. That two-minute lapse of sanity will haunt me until I die. But the gun was inactive, there were no planes overhead--I simply wasn't thinking about what I was doing, only about what I was feeling--innocent of what the photo implies. Yet the photo exists, delivering its message, regardless of what I was really doing or feeling...
...Under the proposed amnesty, a Taliban fighter would have to lay down his gun and take a public oath of loyalty to the Afghan constitution. So far, according to Rocketi, it has been a tough sell. "The Taliban are afraid they'll be put in prison, or killed," he says. That's an understandable fear. During their five-year rule, the Taliban made many enemies. But even in Omar's village of Singesar, locals say they have been trying to persuade Taliban relatives to return home, now that the rains have come and planting season is underway. A nomad preacher...