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...described a chaotic collapse, in which many Taliban commanders and troops simply fled their positions, leaving the more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince a little as firsthand tales from the battle front paint many of the proxy warriors of the Northern Alliance as no less brutal than their Talib enemies. But in Afghanistan, neither locals nor foreigners have ever fought by the Queensberry rules...
...There is a supreme irony at work here, of course: Al Qaeda regard Arafat as an apostate, and Al Zawahiri would sooner amputate his own hand rather than shake that of the Palestinian leader. No matter, this is a propaganda war and Bin Laden's men are determined to paint themselves as universal spokesmen for widely held Arab grievances...
...Jersey, McGreevey won easily over his rival, conservative Republican Bret Schundler. The GOP candidate was recently endorsed by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man with the Midas touch, but even that wasn't enough to beat back McGreevey's aggressive campaign to paint Schundler as a reactionary whose views on abortion and gun control were utterly out of sync with those of the general public. McGreevey was absent from the campaign trail for the last couple of days before the election; his wife is in the hospital with pregnancy complications...
...first impressions were a mixture of the picturesque and the pornographic. Driving through alpine valleys, we passed clusters of wooden houses decorated with paintings of flowers, the inevitable dragons and, on either side of the 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...
This past summer Webb covered her body in silver paint each weekend and performed on a street corner outside Pacific Sunwear, posing as a silver bunny...