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The International Association of Chiefs of Police has written two letters asking Ashcroft to release the records to the FBI, but the attorney general has turned a deaf ear to their pleas and to those of senior FBI officials. For a man who has been so dismissive of fundamental liberties...
Visitors to the exhibition hear a deep booming sound, followed by shouting. It emanates from one large room where a cinema-size screen is showing continuously a 1-min., 45-sec. clip of the Bamiyan explosions - the great clouds of smoke and dust when, despite pleas to the Taliban from...
One of the first western reporters to reach Mazar-i-Sharif, I was ushered into the home of Ustad Atta Mohammed, the Northern Alliance commander who--along with warlords Rashid Dostum and Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq--had taken the city a few days before. An ethnic Tajik, Atta, 37, is a...
On Sept. 11, the world shook with a tragedy so powerful that it seemed to overwhelm our senses. Since Sept. 11, a quieter tragedy has taken place: a quarter of a million people have died of AIDS. As we spend tens of billions of dollars to address terrorism and the...
Despite the pleas of the public address announcer, it soon became obvious that the game was over. By the time the clock ticked down to triple zeroes, the field was already nearly full.