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...Taliban forces have mounted a surprisingly strong resistance to an ongoing NATO operation near Kandahar in which both sides have suffered substantial casualties. The bombings in the capital "looks to be the insurgents lashing out against us for the pressure we are putting on them in the south," says Luke Knittig, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. "Conventional warfare is taking its toll down there, and they know the importance of the capital...
...south, a historically neglected region where the Taliban is particularly strong, and it will be in charge of the whole country by the end of the year. "The insurgents are fighting in numbers and with a strength that we didn't anticipate six months ago," says Major Luke Knittig, an ISAF spokesman. Taliban forces, in disarray after coalition forces toppled them from power in 2001, are now able to operate in platoon-sized units of about 40 men, and sometimes larger, and are also employing tactics honed by insurgents in Iraq, including suicide attacks and roadside bombs. Foreign forces have...
DIED. Sister Mary Luke Tobin, 98, indomitably progressive Catholic nun; in Nerinx, Ky. A former ballet teacher, she was the only American woman to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Over the years, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and nuclear stockpiling and for female ordination. She was a close friend of monk and diarist Thomas Merton...
Pity poor Uma Thurman. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, her new movie, she plays a superhero who falls for Luke Wilson, a not very successful architect. He does not reciprocate, a less than shrewd response to a woman who, with one glance, can set you alight--and I don't mean with desire. In her last romantic comedy, Prime, she played a high-powered fashion consultant who's dating a man who worked as a kitchen hand and moved into her apartment and played a lot of video games. Those are the men Uma Thurman gets. Or doesn...
...Starbranch had warned that if Andrea's illness returned, it could be more severe. But Rusty and Andrea both believed, Rusty says, that if the depression were to return, Rusty could easily recognize the symptoms and seek early intervention. The birth of Luke may have triggered her illness, but he was a blessing too. "To us," says Rusty, "the trade was simple...