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...underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit at the embassy: "It looked like somebody did it so we'd come running out and step on the mine...
...also knew better (after last January's debacle about those dangerously high surpluses) than to play policymaker, limiting his politically mine-able comments to one about looming deficits helping nudge up long-term interest rates (score one for Tom Daschle), and one about looming tax-cut phase-ins providing needed economic stimulus (and one for Bush...
...Malim Mirwali is like no other Afghan I have met. His shoulders are thick like heavy sacks of flour, his chest broader than a 40-gallon drum. He has pylons for legs. The hand he offered in greeting swallowed mine whole in a fleshy palm, then wrapped it in fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town...
...dinner with the provost of Princeton [Amy Gutmann] who is a good friend of mine,” Appiah said...
...feminism really dead? A friend of mine proclaimed that feminism should be rejected because it is an “outdated, misdirected ideology.” Bra burning, anger and rage are all images that many of us associate with the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. These images are certainty not ones with which women associate today. In fact, we have reached a point where feminism is cliché, with so many negative connotations that many women who actually advocate feminist principles hesitate to label themselves as feminists. The movement once called groundbreaking and liberal has now been...