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...Tonight, the occasional burst of gunfire still rings out in the city, but order is fast returning. Alliance soldiers patrol the streets and monitor traffic at checkpoints. AK-47s slung over their shoulders and sacks of RPG rockets in the back of their high-powered pickup trucks. But in a country that has been at war for more than two decades, armed fighters are merely part of the scenery...
...wants to shoot in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and avoid getting your camera smashed and film confiscated or worse, you have to take precautions. Which is why TIME photographer Majid uses a pseudonym to help him maneuver behind Taliban lines. Even so, Majid was beaten up by a Taliban patrol yet managed to smuggle his film across the border by courier. See his striking photo essay at time.com/talibanlines...
...National Guard, not volunteers, will operate the metal detectors. Concrete bunkers and a 10-ft.-high chain-link fence bristling with cameras will enclose a seven-block area downtown, including the main skating rink, the media center and the medal-awards plaza. Plainclothes cops will patrol the streets, and sensors will monitor the air for germs and chemicals. The no-fly zone will expand to 100 miles beyond the city, and the Air Force is pondering F-16 patrols. Still, David Tubbs, executive director of the Utah Olympic Safety Command, stresses that no threats have surfaced and that ticket sales...
Gilmore, a former paratrooper who has fed his jail inmates surplus army rations, is a man of action. So on the afternoon of Oct. 19, he and the hospital sent a Hamilton patrol car to pick up 18,000 Cipro pills from a supplier in south Jersey. It arrived back in Hamilton just as a news conference was being held to announce another case of anthrax. Knowing that the local hospital now had a stash on hand, Gilmore stepped to the microphone and told workers they could get free treatment in his township. Some 1,500 postal workers have since...
...novelist, a phone call from OPRAH WINFREY is like a house call from the prize patrol: the big check has arrived. The author appears on Oprah's show, and sales go through the roof. But not long after JONATHAN FRANZEN's literary best seller The Corrections got the nod, the writer got cold feet: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," he said. Oprah's justice was swift. She did not withdraw the seal of approval, but she did the next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will...