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...Alliance has its own elite corps deployed near Kabul. Visiting Western journalists often portray the Alliance's militia of part-time, agrarian soldiers as representative of the rebel force as a whole. But that picture is misleading. A zarbati, or strike unit, of some 1,200 uniformed, well-trained fighters is massed north of the capital. The best of the bunch, the Guards Brigade, was created by the late mujahedin commander Ahmed Shah Massoud--even in death the spiritual leader of the Northern Alliance--and comprises several infantry assault battalions backed up by Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks...
...pieces, the picture that the box frames has a black background and a burst of color. The names are simplistic and self explanatory: “Etherea Red”, “Etherea Blue” and “Etherea Yellow,” and all three portray images that resemble basic shapes found in nature...
...Levering slithers and writhes and wraps her legs around Bierko as seductively as Cyd Charisse used to envelop Gene Kelly. Not only is this a rare Broadway musical where the dance numbers actually illuminate character and enhance the story; it's also one of the few that manages to portray sexual passion convincingly. Seldom do I believe that a couple onstage are really attracted to each other. Here...
...Levering slithers and writhes and wraps her legs around Bierko as seductively as Cyd Charisse used to envelop Gene Kelly. Not only is this a rare Broadway musical where the dance numbers actually illuminate character and enhance the story; it's also one of the few that manages to portray sexual passion convincingly. Seldom do I believe that a couple onstage are really attracted to each other. Here...
...clock. Regardless, it is not a tour guide’s role to offer opinions on policies about which there are a diversity of views. We welcome the “puzzled applicant’s most profound questions” and we answer them honestly. Do we portray Harvard in a positive light? Yes. Are we disingenuous or bent on sugarcoating our responses...