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On the Waterfront was seen as both a bold exposé of racketeers and a defense of those film people, such as Schulberg and Kazan, who had named former colleagues as Communists before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director and...
While Abdullah's father is a Pashtun from Kandahar, the doctor is more often associated with Panshir because of his close relationship with the late Panshiri mujahedin commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who not only helped defeat the Soviets but was also the Taliban's most effective enemy. Massoud was assassinated...
The Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [June 29?July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and...
The Legacy of 1989 Thanks for your double issue [june 29 - July 6]. Twenty years ago I was a 5-year-old starting school. My world was untouched by violence, hatred and division and the only web I knew was Charlotte's Web. The Wall, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev and Mandela...
Historical destinies are directional, not precisely preordained. History runs in cycles, but how well or badly we respond as individuals and a society to those cyclical shifts - such as the big one we're experiencing now - is up to us. Both my middle-aged sense of history and hardwired American...