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...After a hard day exploring this earthly Eden, head to one of the park's many bars to chill out. The favored drink: ice-cold beer. The dress code: ultra-casual. The attitude: always unruffled, despite the heart-stopping booms and jagged lightning ripping across yonder horizon. Maybe a thirsty Namarrgon is demanding his own brew...
...Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate...
...Allies are on the trail. This morning, a convoy of U.S. commandos and British Special Forces in 4x4s sped off into the desert south of Kandahar airport. On the horizon appeared a mud-walled fortress. Inside was an Al Qaeda training camp, with firing ranges, an underground bunker and a main headquarters. It was an early target for Cruise missiles, but the commandos were scouring the bombed-out camouflaged buildings for any leads...
...just renamed some of my tunes. I think Crunch Time became Loss Control,” Fox says. He’s not feeling the pressure of job-search crunch time yet so the horizon seems clear for loss of control. But that risk will be managed when he comes to it. There is always the circus...
...battle. A small unit of American special forces arrived, and their commander slipped inside. A few minutes later, the Alliance chiefs jumped into their jeeps and sped across the desert, trailed by 5,000 troops. Dostum scrambled up an ancient mud mound and raised his binoculars: on the horizon a thin line of black dots showed where the Taliban was waiting...