Word: neos
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...Taliban were scared, broken and disconcerted. Now they are forming again, slowly, gradually, like a photograph developing." The big picture, according to Kandahar's police chief Brigadier General Mohammed Akram, is that "the Taliban are stronger now than at any time since the fall of their government." These neo-Taliban number in the "thousands," according to an Afghan security official in Kabul. They operate primarily out of Pakistan, guided by many of the same men?including supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar?who ran Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox theocracy from 1995 through 2001, when the group harbored Osama bin Laden...
...Mass was good. Nothing more can be said about this segment of the voyage. It was wholesome, rife with folk songs as well as Westernized neo-Christian rock. The Pope drove around for a good while in the Popemobile; and by hook or by crook, each Catholic punk rocker willing to use his or her elbows was able to see him close-up, in the flesh: Ivana Pavla Deuce...
...hottest potato may be the fact that a falsehood known as such to the U.S. intelligence community - the allegation that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Niger - had made its way into the President's State of the Union address. That one got even some of the neo-conservatives who had most fiercely championed the war demanding an explanation, if only for the record...
...Despite the enthusiasm of Rumsfeld and the neo-conservative ideologues who first promoted the Iraq war for regime-change in Tehran, the Bush administration remains committed - at least for now - to a multilateral diplomatic strategy for dealing with Iran. But the debate in Washington, and allied capitals, is likely to heat up. Nobody, at this stage, is advocating a direct U.S. invasion: Iran is a far larger and more powerful adversary than Iraq. And Washington would likely be forced to shoulder such a burden alone - the British, for example, have made clear they'd have no part in such...
...according to the laws of supply-and-demand?all the while keeping an eye on how the mandarins of culture perceive their mercantilist ways. (Is he a sellout? Is it art? Are such distinctions even relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty smiles and bright colors of cartoon cute are designed to appeal to the preteen in Tokyo who just wants a cell...