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...Friday night in Bandung and the boys from Koil are hanging out at Omuniuum, a tiny record shop they own that also serves as a practice studio. They are passing around a bottle of Singa Jengke, or "crouching lion," a barely refined vodka produced in the industrial heartland of Tangerang. The music booming in the shop is heavy, probably Nordic, and a bootlegged DVD is showing the latest video from the German band Lucyfire. "We're thinking of going for the cowboy look like these guys, at our next show," jokes Otong, Koil's lead singer. "Our fans would probably...
...Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more and much less than the man of her heartland dreams. Their disastrous romantic negotiations show us not only their own hearts but the heart of a divided America, split not horizontally, North and South, but vertically, into the coasts and the middle. The simple life never looked so complicated...
...most of the movement's senior leadership have never been captured. Unlike the sophisticated Arab operatives of al-Qaeda for whom Afghanistan was simply another stopover in a globalized jihad, the one-eyed peasant mystic mullah is still believed to be at large somewhere on home turf. (The Pashtun heartland spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.) And the fact that he hasn't been found suggests a measure of support among the local population...
...Qaeda diehards. Such operations haven't proved particularly effective in eliminating the small, mobile enemy formations that continue to operate throughout eastern and southern Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan's tribal areas (where the local elected leadership is openly pro-Taliban) and in the Taliban's Pashtun heartland...
...million F-18 fighter jet. As the first statue of Saddam fell in Baghdad three weeks ago, the White House was putting into motion a plan that would allow the President to pivot from his focus abroad to mending fences at home. Bush's "hardware in the heartland" tour follows the battle plan for his re-election effort: from now until November 2004, he will blend martial images with rhetoric about tax cuts and never let the nation forget that we're at war both abroad and at home. "Sure, he talked about his domestic agenda," says a White House...