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...through the darkness over the river valley outside Baqubah. At about 4 a.m. local time, seven Chinooks, four Blackhawks and two Apache gunships rose as one from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military base in Baqubah. Moments later, the helicopters descended on Qubah, a village at the northern edge of the river valley used by insurgents as a safe haven...
...Binh orphanage is next to national highway 1A, a busy thoroughfare on the northern outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). But it is fairly quiet once you are within the grounds. The reception area has faded light-blue walls that look like they are about five years overdue for repainting. A pleasant tree-shaded garden is filled with primary-colored playground equipment of the kind you'd see pretty much anywhere in the West - slides, a plastic jungle gym, spring-loaded hobby-horses shaped like ducks and rabbits. The children's dormitories are further to the left...
...streets as a full-time geisha. Liza Dalby's experiences inspired several books, including her memorable and elegant Geisha, published in 1983, a book on kimono and a novel about Japan's first novelist, Lady Murasaki, and her adventures of a thousand years ago. Now 56, Dalby lives in northern California where she lectures and writes. But even in her New World home, she buys crickets that she feeds with chunks of melon and visits ancestors' graves, much as any Japanese lady might...
...officially called North and South Waziristan--has never fully submitted to the rule of any country. The colonial British were unable to conquer the region's Pashtun tribes and allowed them to run their own affairs according to local custom. In exchange, the tribesmen protected the subcontinental empire from northern invaders. Following independence in 1947, Pakistan continued the arrangement...
...away, but it still came again another day. With inclement weather conditions pounding Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team’s home opener against Holy Cross was postponed indefinitely, with no makeup date announced. The Crimson spent the two previous weekends on the road, competing at the Northern Invitational in Plant City, Fla. and the Eller Media Stadium Classic in Las Vegas, Nev. Harvard tallied a 4-5 record in the non-conference matchups. Harvard is next scheduled to take the field in Macon, Ga., where the Crimson will compete in the Mercer Nissan Classic on the first weekend...