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...with the new millennium and preparations for their 125th anniversary last March, Chapman says the Lampoon decided it was time to reclaim the bookstore’s space in the castle...
This much of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's lovely and terrifying movie Kandahar is true. Indeed, Pazira, 28, plays Nafas, the character she inspired--though in the film it is a sister, not a friend, she seeks to save--and the year is 1999, just before the millennium new year. In real life, Pazira only briefly penetrated Afghanistan's border. In the film, her character, shrouded in a burka and taking notes on a hidden tape recorder, is a brave, lonely figure constantly menaced by a bleak land and the day-to-day anarchy of the life she finds there...
...down to notes from wives and scribbles on matchbooks. Yet even with a list of names, intelligence agents will have a daunting task. Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian al-Qaeda operative who turned government witness after being convicted of a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations, has told the FBI that camp officials banned the use of real names and handed out aliases. U.S. counterterror experts hope to pierce this security veil by showing photos of suspected jihadists to Afghans who worked in the camps as cooks, drivers, translators, bookkeepers and in other positions...
...knows what the Buddha really looked like, any more than there is a definitive image of Jesus Christ, who arrived half a millennium later, but the various features artists have given the Buddha over thousands of years help to reflect the endless political and cultural changes in Afghanistan. A 2nd century marble head representing Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepalese prince who after years of futile asceticism sat down and found enlightenment, looks like a Mongol warrior, with moustache and wild curly hair. In most other sculptures in the exhibition the Buddha has fine, often-feminine looks...
...Flying Vehicle) has a comparable flight record: 8 in. above the ground for about 9 sec., according to the inventor. A former Navy combat pilot, Moshier has been working on his creation, at least in his mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame. The pilot stands on a pair of footrests, straps...