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Today, Noorzai, 43, sits in a small cell in the high-security section of Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, awaiting a trial that may still be months away. But whatever his fate, the Case of the Cooperative Kingpin raises larger questions about America's needs, goals and instincts in fighting its two shadow wars: the war on terrorism and the war on drugs. The question that continues to haunt U.S. policymakers in this long struggle is, When do you bend the rules for one to help the other? Afghanistan is where these two battles converge, as the runoff from...
...excited and said that it might be Turandot, a very famous opera and the story was set in China. He talked a lot about Puccini and other basic knowledge of opera.... He found a videotape of Turandot for me. It was a version released by the New York Metropolitan Opera...but I still didn't understand what was being sung. The next day Zhao Jiping gave me a rough summary of the story, and suggested that I really should direct this opera even if it meant that I had to give up a film. Seeing that he was so into...
...happened to glance into a crowded elevator in the lobby of New York's Metropolitan Opera last month at the world premiere of The First Emperor. Before the doors closed I had just a second to register the familiar face and stocky figure of Henry Kissinger. Why should I be surprised? It was only natural that the men who, as President Nixon's Secretary of State, had opened relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China should be in attendance at Lincoln Center for the Met's first-ever opera by a Chinese composer-conductor...
...iPhone started out the way a lot of cool things do: as something completely different. A few years ago, Steve Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent--particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area--on what are called tablet PCs: flat portable computers that work with a touch screen instead of a mouse and keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, was curious. He had some Apple engineers noodle around with a touch screen. When they showed him what they came up with, he got excited...
...iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a notion. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent-particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area-on what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, figured he could do better, so he had Apple engineers noodle around with a better touchscreen. When they showed him the screen they came up with, he got excited. So excited that he thought he had the beginnings of a new product...