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...plan with plenty of decoys and red herrings, than to be improvising a haphazard retreat. And he's unlikely to go to ground in the pro-Taliban villages of western Pakistan, where the hunt for Tora Bora survivors would be at its most intense. If he's looking to lay low and wait out the storm, he's likely to have sought refuge in nooks where the U.S. is least likely to look...
...mind. The night before, the soft-spoken Pashtun tribal leader had received word that he had been chosen as Afghanistan's interim Prime Minister by the U.N.-sponsored gathering of Afghan factions in Bonn, Germany. And that afternoon several high-ranking Taliban commanders were driving out to Shahwalikot to lay down conditions for their surrender of Kandahar, the last city in the Taliban's grip...
...didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches of Flanders and the murderous October Revolution. Luckily for him, Signac did not have the gift of prophecy, and even his anarchism belonged to the Belle Epoque...
...days and two nights," Tangalu says. "My daughter had to cover my grandchild's mouth to stop her from crying." The local military commander sent dozens of troops from the nearby base in Poso but they were heavily outnumbered and hastily withdrew. By 2 p.m. three Christian residents lay dead in the village and all of Tangkura?some 300 houses and a church?was burned to the ground...
...rushed shot as the 30-second clock expired, the shot hit rim and bounced under the basket where Peljto appeared to control the rebound. But Syracuse's Perry had other ideas as she stripped the ball out of Peljto's arms and immediately went up strong for an easy lay-up. That basket gave Syracuse a 56-52 lead with 6:04 to play...