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Atwood returned to Harvard last week to speak give a lecture titled “How I Became a Writer.” She began with her family history, then moved on to her childhood in northern Quebec and later Toronto, a time where she “read everything I could get my hands on.” Atwood placed the “literature” of her childhood into three categories: “acceptable” books read for school, “acceptable” books read out of school and, finally, True Romance novels...
...time Tony-winner John Cullum (best known to younger audiences for his portrayal of Holling on Northern Exposure) is a pleasant addition as the money-grubbing head of the Urine Good Company (say it aloud). Strong voiced and with excellent timing, Cullum wears the years well and can still sell a long...
Even as medical workers picking through carnage Thursday came under fire from two surviving holdouts, prominent humanitarian organizations raised concerns over the confrontation in which 400 or more Taliban prisoners held at the Qalai Janghi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif were killed in a three-day onslaught of Northern Alliance artillery and machinegun fire and U.S. air strikes. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson on Thursday added her voice to calls by Amnesty International for an urgent international inquiry into the bloodbath, while the International Committee of the Red Cross questioned whether the rules of war had been properly...
...Qalai Janghi prisoners were foreign Taliban volunteers who surrendered with the Taliban at Kunduz, and had then been separated from their Afghan comrades and brought to General Dostum's fortress. The Northern Alliance had promised amnesty for Afghan Taliban fighters; the foreigners were a problem. The U.S. had made clear during the siege of Kunduz that it would not accept any outcome that allowed Al Qaeda operatives to escape to other countries - they should, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said bluntly, "either be killed or taken prisoner." Dostum had taken the captives to his fortress, announcing that he would hand them over...
...Northern Alliance forces, meanwhile, continued to bombard the Taliban fighters with cannon and mortars throughout the day, while the prisoners returned fire. As of late Monday, approximately 50 Taliban still held their corner of the fort, a far cry from the 800-strong group that had surrendered two days before. "It's pretty much a matter of time, at this point," Perry had said Monday. "The Taliban have nowhere to go." A day later, it was all over...