Word: interiorities
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...other side of the ridge, U.S. special forces have established a firebase in the neighboring village of Shkin. For these men, the Angurada bazaar, only a few miles away, is treacherous. When they enter it, they come under fire. The firebase has been repeatedly rocketed. Laments Afghan Interior Ministry intelligence chief Niamatullah Jalili: "Al-Qaeda is using this town, and there's nothing we can do." U.S. forces are also frustrated at their inability to strike at the al-Qaeda operatives they know are inside. Says Colonel Roger King, spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan: "It's not like...
Franzen has very little quarrel with Oprah. His real problem, and one that he lays out with care all through the book, is with a world in which the interior life becomes ever more threadbare as the means to sustain it--especially the essential consolations of serious reading--wither away. In tones that are sober but never lugubrious, Franzen weighs the pressures upon the self in a culture that manages the neat trick of discouraging real solitude and genuine community, substituting for both the paradox of media-overloaded isolation. "The first lesson reading teaches," he writes...
...trillion lawsuit against members of the Saudi royal family and others, alleging that they helped finance the 9/11 attacks. Sources tell TIME that 50 new defendants are about to be added to the list of 100 already named. Prime among them is likely to be Saudi Minister of the Interior Prince Naif. Another likely target is the Saudi American Bank (SAMBA), the kingdom's second largest financial institution, which is partly owned and managed by Citibank. The list will also include prominent Saudi charities, financial institutions and businessmen, notably Mohammed al-Amoudi, the multimillionaire owner of a lavish Addis Ababa...
...Fabrice Chassery will be tried in criminal court next year after a complaint by Mohamed al Fayed, Dodi's father. They will face charges of breaching privacy laws by taking pictures of Dodi inside the wrecked car. The trial will test the part of French law that regards the interior of a car as private even if on a public road. DENMARK Under Suspicion A municipal court placed the former head of the Iraqi army under travel restrictions on charges of complicity in chemical-weapons attacks on Kurds in the late 1980s. General Nizar al-Khazraji, who has lived...
...opinion we have the best interior linebacking crew in the Ivy League,” Niemczak says. “Any time you have a pair of guys up the middle that can consistently put up 10 tackles a game, you know you have a special group of linebackers...