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...lifetime of fighting. A towering chap with a ramrod back and a vaguely wintery air, he retains a formidable presence even as he potters about the twisting rows of tea bushes swaddling the slopes below his Chinese-style villa. Further down, the mountain falls away in an undulating patchwork of tea, tobacco, fruit trees and stands of thick forest. Above, near the summit, the sun glints on the gilt-wrapped domes and spires of a Buddhist temple. "We are just ordinary Thai citizens now," Lue says. His passport records his name as Aroon Charoentangchanya, and under that alias...
...until last week, the patchwork of government agencies scrambling to hold hands and surround the bad guys did what it has always done. The FBI has been keeping secrets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been waiting for someone to get sick before intervening. And the U.S. Postal Service has been delivering the mail and enraging its employees. Just like old times. A close look at the sequence of events leading up to Curseen's and Morris's deaths reveals several points at which authorities could have recognized the risk to postal workers and taken action...
...learned in physics class, and fittingly, his installations, which incorporate his paintings, can be massive. Parents and Children measures 23 ft. by 54 ft. by 16 ft. and literally spills down the wall and onto the floor, the overflow composed of little pieces of plastic that together form patchwork carpets of abstract art. Each of his canvases swims with details. Humans, angels and the devil sometimes lurk in the corners. But the main focus is on the elemental forces--time, energy, gravity--that Ritchie brings together in intense knots of color...
...explained at a reading for WordsWorth Books last week. As an inquisitive audience grilled him on Afghanistan, his time there and the lessons he learned, his humanity spilled out and he spoke as someone who lost a cherished friend in Massoud. He discussed the “patchwork quilt of control” in Afghanistan and how the United States left the country to rot and fend for itself after the Russians pulled out in the 1980s: “We supported the war, but not the peace.” Junger now sees his tour as a chance...
...armed fighters are an alliance in name only. Real control lies with a shifting patchwork of power-hungry warlords, guerrilla warriors and ethnic leaders who came together in the 1980s to fight the Soviet occupation. They make an uneasy blend of minority ethnic groups--Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara--in a predominantly Pashtun country, and include Shi'ite Muslims, despised by the majority Sunnis. As soon as they brought down the Soviet puppet ruler, alliance leaders turned on one another and viciously fought in bloody civil strife. The cosmopolitan capital, once known for its beautiful gardens and monuments, was reduced to rubble...