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...passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in, pelting her with stones. Children finished the job by kicking up swirls of yellow dust, as she lay on the ground shielding her exposed face. Today, when Osema, 32, walks through the bazaar, only her dark eyelashes are visible from underneath a burka, a billowy head-to-toe shroud with mesh over the eyes...
...that complacency disappeared in the blink of an eye last Saturday at the Stadium. Down 14-10 to Princeton, Harvard was pinned in its own territory when senior quarterback Neil Rose was drilled attempting to complete a pass to senior wide out Dan Farley. Rose lay motionless on the ground for a moment as the crowd held its collective breath...
...years that lay between us served more as a bridge than a gulf. Becoming a mother had soothed her and given her new perspective; much of the conversation lingered on ideas of aging and womanhood...
...week with the news that a successful commando raid at Kandahar had opened a new phase of the war. More Special Forces operations were expected to strike at the Taliban's command capability, while the Northern Alliance was encouraged to recapture the northern city of Mazari al-Sharif and lay siege to Kabul. By week's end, however, U.S. officials were considerably more downbeat, trying to lower public expectations and prepare Americans for a long and potentially messy war. The Taliban was proving more tenacious than expected, U.S. commanders said. And what they didn't say was that the Northern...
...particularly against the backdrop of the complex and even contradictory political objectives guiding the military action. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday called on the Northern Alliance to begin advancing on Kabul, with the objective not of capturing the city but of "investing" it - a military term for laying siege that required translation to a lay audience. U.S. aircraft echoed the call by bombing the Taliban frontline to the north of Kabul, Monday, although so lightly as to elicit skepticism among Alliance commanders as to the objectives of the raids. Like Secretary Powell's military jargon, current U.S. strategy...