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...They just want to kill you off," Chee said grimly, sitting still for the moment as a car carried him from his whirlwind campaigning back to the headquarters of his Singapore Democratic Party, three small rooms up a narrow staircase in the Little India district. He started to say more, then checked himself. "You never know what is going to be defamatory and what's not. I'm interested in talking about the issues, not personal attacks. But they have no qualms calling me names...
...forces to fall back. Sitting astride his dark bay pony, he radioed for the cavalry. By the next night, after "very fierce" fighting, the Alliance broke through. A local uprising against the Taliban sent the regime's men running from the district capital, Shulgarah. The treacherous Shulgarah Pass--a narrow ravine 14 miles southwest of Mazar where the Alliance had expected to be ambushed by enemy gunners--had been abandoned by Taliban troops before the Alliance arrived...
...Tigers were able to respond with two goals to narrow the lead to 3-2. Princeton was unable to score the equalizer, though, and Kormanyos potted an empty-netter with 15 seconds to play for the final margin of victory...
...door, huge penises. The phalluses, Tempa, our guide, explained, are meant to startle: families paint them to distract any evil spirits thinking of entering. We reached Thimphu in the late afternoon. Home to just 40,000 people, the capital scarcely qualifies as a city. Brightly painted facades and narrow lanes stretching up to the wooded slopes of giant mountains reinforce the feeling of a medieval mountain village. King Wangchuck rules his people from the imposing Traashi Chhoe Dzong, an 18th century monastery that surveys Thimphu from the banks of the Wangchhu River. Only under the cover of darkness...
...herded into Middle Eastern and West African airports and onto planes to Malaysia, where they are hidden away in safe houses for a week or two. They are loaded at night onto buses, taken to deserted stretches of coastline and then ferried by small fishing boats across the narrow Strait of Malacca into Indonesia. Then there is the wait, sometimes for months, for another boat for the final?often deadly?attempt to make it to Australia...