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...psychological hobbling of women that is akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life threatening. Try negotiating a busy Kabul street--around donkey carts, careening buses and the Taliban roaring by in Datsun pickups--when your hearing is muffled and your vision is reduced to a narrow mesh grid...
...psychological hobbling of women that is akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life threatening. Try negotiating a busy Kabul street?around donkey carts, careening buses and the Taliban roaring by in Datsun pickups?when your hearing is muffled and your vision is reduced to a narrow mesh grid...
...operate in 50 or 60 countries, its presence in most of these is small and covert. The organization's long-term future requires that it replace Afghanistan as a sanctuary in which it can function independently and unmolested to cultivate a new generation of professional terrorists. Those requirements considerably narrow the list - even if Iraq were to offer, accepting Saddam's hospitality would totally destroy Al Qaeda's independence and reduce it to the proxy of a man its leaders loathe. (Saddam, of course, would likely be extremely wary of opening his doors to thousands of suicidal zealots with whom...
...multilateral credentials after rioting activists two years ago forced the breakdown of the WTO?s Seattle meeting, which also attempted to launch a new trade round. This time, tough visa rules and tight security kept demonstrators away, and Sept. 11 appeared to encourage delegates to look beyond their own narrow horizons. So a deal was struck. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said the wto sent a powerful signal. "We have removed the stain of Seattle," he said. "We are helping to deliver growth, development and prosperity throughout the world...
...headaches. It's a psychological hobbling of women that's akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life-threatening. Imagine trying to negotiate crossing a busy Kabul street, dodging donkey carts, careening buses and Taliban roaring by in their Datsun pickups when your vision is reduced to a narrow, mesh grid. The plus point of a burqa is that it confers invisibility on a woman. In lawless Afghanistan, that's a necessary shield...