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...going to marry,” Whitman says.That fateful dance didn’t keep Whitman from “enjoying other dates,” she says, chuckling. Her “eclectic” dating history included a theater excursion with Sadruddin Aga Khan where she met actor Christopher Plummer backstage.Nevertheless, Whitman made her choice long ago that night freshman year. She was married a week after Commencement and will be celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary after her 50th Harvard-Radcliffe reunion.FIRST LADYWhile her marriage put her right with her contemporaries, Whitman still broke out of the mold...
...long since given up taking their complaints to the official courts, but the Taliban has proved it has the ability to enforce its rulings. After a murder victim's family took their complaint to the Taliban, one of its courts in Uruzgan last week ordered the execution of Pacha Khan, accused of killing a man from the area; the Taliban had apprehended the suspect and extracted a confession before ordering the death penalty. Similar cases of intervention in remote areas have made locals put greater trust in the insurgent movement than in the government's justice system, which is widely...
...Hamas and Fatah militiamen have clashed repeatedly in the last three weeks, including on three separate occasions in just the last two days. Early Monday morning, three men were killed in Khan Yunis during a shoot-out between the factions that followed a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings. On Tuesday morning, trouble ensued in Gaza City after Hamas gunmen approached the heavily guarded house of a Fatah official; bullets again flew, injuring nine people, including five children. That same afternoon, at the funeral of a Fatah foot soldier killed the prior morning, gunfire erupted again, injuring three more...
...ills, smaller-scale skirmishes could well become a feature of daily life in Gaza. "The factional fighting is genuine," says Nicholas Pelham, the International Crisis Group's senior Middle East analyst. "It is still at a level where it can be contained but tensions are inflamed" - particularly in Khan Yunis - "to a point where I don' t know if the leaders are going to be able to contain...
...visited two years ago. I had expected to find dismay and destruction in this problematic region; instead I found an optimistic and budding economy trying to put its past behind it. To see Kashmir in ruins again pains me, but I know it will make a comeback. Urfa Suhaib Khan Lahore...