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...Street block between Broadway and Church Street, where Century 21 stands idle and forlorn, was boarded up until last week. Passers-by who paused even for a moment?s gawk were scooted away by a police officer?s harsh, exasperated voice: ?Doesn?t anyone know what ?keep moving? means?? Now half of the block is open; the authorities must have decided to give the people what they want. A side ladder on a convenient dumpster (holds 12) allows access to a three-star view of the pyre. Two amiable cops pose for pictures with tourist group after tourist group...
...several instances, Republicans agreed to modify the harsh language of their original proposal. The Bush administration had asked for indefinite powers to detain immigrants, and Congress settled on a seven-day limit. The House also imposed a sunset provision on expanded surveillance measures—permission to use certain telephone and computer wiretaps without warrants will expire in four years rather than persist indefinitely...
...single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country, you get four different answers. Ghulan Sarwar, 50, favors the King. Mahmood Ayub, 25, says only the Taliban can maintain peace and proper Islam. He would go and fight for it now if he had food for his family. Twentyish...
...that charity starts at home. Unrest is never our fault. It is time for us to realize that we have to fix our own world first, that we actually do have some control of our destiny and that the West is not our enemy. All proud Arabs must see harsh dictators and radical manipulators for what they are and not as heroes. AMIN K. KAWAR Amman
...Zero, and the arid Afghan landscape, starkly beautiful in my mind (and in the words of the press). In both my images, there are no people, in one because they are interred in concrete, in the other, because Afghanistan has been described to us so many times as a harsh, inhospitable land...