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...cannot say it will be peaceful again in my lifetime?only God knows," says Ahmed Shah, who left his village of Bachkot in Nangarhar a year ago. The despondency is widespread. Farras has a constant cough, a runny nose and an open sore on his cheek. His mother puts kohl around his eyes to ward off bad spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate all their lives. Farras has never had any toys...
...Christians. But this incendiary piece of misinformation has been circulated in the mosques and Urdu newspapers for days, steeling the local resolve to defend bin Laden as Islam's hero. One earnest youth tells me that when he joins the jihad against America, he'll rim his eyes with kohl so that the maidens in martyr's paradise will find him more handsome. This nutty zealousness rattles me; I start telling people in the bazaar that I'm a Spanish national...
Omar prefers to rule from the shadows of Kandahar, while his feared Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice enforces Taliban law through religious police with kohl-rimmed eyes, wearing black turbans, who crack whips at recalcitrant mosquegoers and banish women to the window-blocked confines of their homes. Life is severely constricted by an endless list of rules creating a variant of Islam never seen before, say Muslim scholars. In a country in which there is no television and only Islamic radio, Omar shows little knowledge of or concern for the outside world. When officials...
DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, loyal wife of 41 years to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; by suicide; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Since 1993 she had endured a painful and untreatable allergy to sunlight, triggered by a severe reaction to a penicillin treatment. The photoallergy, which caused hivelike rashes and fever, forced Kohl to remain indoors every day until dark. During the past 15 months her debilitating condition had worsened and left her totally homebound and dependent on painkillers...
...superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted by a devastating allergy to sunlight. She committed suicide. ARRESTED, ALFREDO ASTIZ, 50, in Buenos Aires. The "Blond Angel of Death" participated...