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...terrible ordeal indeed. Walker (he goes by his mother’s maiden name) was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance after the fall of Kunduz and imprisoned in the now-infamous Kala Jangi fortress. At the prison, Newsweek reported recently, he refused to answer questions posed by two CIA agents. Shortly after he was sent back to his cell, one of his interrogators, CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann, was killed by Walker’s comrades-in-arms...
...were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took the bus to his job at the Department of Justice. Marilyn Walker was a stay-at-home mom who kept her maiden name. They played with their three kids, went to Mass at St. Bernadette's Catholic Church and held a "Kentucky Derby Day" every...
Athena’s maiden production succeeds, then, as a new vehicle to demonstrate the talents of women in the theater community. All those involved with the production acquit themselves nicely but leave one wishing that Athena had chosen a more dynamic piece with which to make its debut...
...Taliban claims as soon as they are issued. And this week President Bush will make his plea to give war a chance, as he meets with Tony Blair of Britain, Jacques Chirac of France and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and delivers three speeches on war and terror-including his maiden address to the U.N. General Assembly, scheduled for Saturday...
...includes, for instance, Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden, a tale of state-sponsored, U.S.-backed torture and terror in Latin America. Born outside the United States but living now in North Carolina (the state where I was born), Dorfman confronts the accidental fact that a democratically elected government in Chile was toppled on September 11, 1973, a Tuesday, like September 11, 2001. In Dorfmans view, the recent attack against the United States, in which thousands have disappeared, recalls an attack supported by the United States against Chile, in which thousands also disappeared. This latter attack is hardly...