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...will take more than mere wind and rain to faze Tyson, who has seen power close up. And when a Democrat gets back in the White House, a return to the political maelstrom is possible. Consider the reason she has sometimes given for taking the L.B.S. job: "Al Gore didn't win." Q&A TIME: What do you see ahead, economically, given the current slump? Tyson: The evidence points to a picking-up of the global economy in the second half of 2002. It will be a slow recovery to complement a fairly mild and short recession. What people shouldn...
...unifying force in this maelstrom of violence and mistrust is the memory of Massoud. For all anti-Taliban Afghans, the latest chapter in their bloody history began not on Sept. 11, but two days earlier. Everything that has happened since is seen as guided by his ghostly hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban...
...While some are benefiting from the lawlessness, many of Jalalabad's citizens are starting to miss the comparative stability under their former rulers, as they are once again thrust into the maelstrom of feuding warlords. The Taliban's strict, often brutal, interpretations of Islamic law banned everything from music to squeaky shoes, but at least there were laws. (Rough justice is no excuse, of course, for the Taliban's intellectual and cultural oppression.) But now, as the three warlords who control Jalalabad remain inside their walled compounds, residents on the dusty streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval...
...agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. In this modern maelstrom, yoga's tendency to stasis and silence seems at first insane, then inspired. The notion of bodies at rest becoming souls at peace is reactionary, radical and liberating. If it cures nagging backache, swell. But isn't it bliss just to sit this one out, to freeze-frame the frenzy...
...developmental purgatory that is the college freshman experience.” But alas; “Undergrads” comes closer to “Saved By the Bell: The College Years” than it does to “Daria” in finding humor in the maelstrom of social and academic changes that accompany the first year of college...