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...guest list did not extend, however, to Majeed Khan, a tribal leader in the rugged Uruzgan region of southern Afghanistan. That's a shame. Khan would have told his hosts some home truths. He would prefer to see more of NATO, if he could, because in recent months his region has been invaded by Taliban insurgents. "We cannot stop them from coming into our areas [because] there are no soldiers to stop them," said Khan earlier this month. "The soldiers [from NATO] come into the area, but then they leave and the Taliban come back. We don't encourage...
...leverage their capabilities to form part of a coherent whole - provided they are willing to ante up their share of battle-ready troops. "NATO has its problems, of course," says Britain's General Jackson. "But believe you me, there is nothing to match it." Back in Uruzgan, tribal leader Khan would certainly agree. The question is whether Europeans looking on from half a world away...
...patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into storage to make way for fresh exhibits. Still, there's always the possibility of rehabilitation: The chunky singer Gary Barlow was dusted down and reinstalled in the Music Zone after his 1990s boy-band...
...sound of the evening prayer call, the Islamic Society introduced its two guest speakers for the evening. The first, Mujib Khan—a graduate student in Eastern Regional Studies—talked about the purpose of the initiative, part of the society’s Islam Awareness Week. Khan discussed the similarities among people in different social situations, as well as how the fast—by showing sympathy for those affected by hunger—revealed this commonality. After Khan’s speech, Heather Danton, food security and livelihoods advisor for Save the Children, talked about...
...only one black acting nominee this year (Ruby Dee, for American Gangster). The Spirit Awards' Best Supporting Male category had three African Americans (Chiwetel Ejiofor, for Talk To Me; Marcus Carl Franklin, for I'm Not There; and Kene Holliday, for Great World of Sound), one Indian (Irfan Khan, for The Namesake) and one under-appreciated Caucasian comic in a dramatic role (Steve Zahn, in Rescue Dawn). Eljiofor...