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...Taliban--seems to have been put on hold as potential leaders squabble over the shape of a postwar government. Indeed, last week, from Kalai Sharif, a village held by the opposition just 25 miles from Kabul, those watching the bombardment of the capital could witness a rather more prosaic light show: the beams of four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions--not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel...
...Taliban?seems to have been put on hold as potential leaders squabble over the shape of a postwar government. Indeed, last week, from Kalai Sharif, a village held by the opposition just 25 miles from Kabul, those watching the bombardment of the capital could witness a rather more prosaic light show: the beams of four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions?not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel...
Collaborating with researchers at Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel, Wagner, whose studio is in San Francisco, began using magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) machines and electron microscopes as cameras, magnifying or looking inside objects as prosaic as corncobs and as elusive as dividing cells. The resulting work, collected in the show "Cross Sections" (beginning Nov. 3 at the San Jose Museum of Art), takes the typical still life and turns it, sometimes literally, inside...
...caption, since the visual image itself is apparently not enough. The drawing is strictly geometrical and almost devoid of a visual subject matter. Three bold black curves, each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat of the intellect, not one of the imagination-it is, again, a scholastic exercise and has little to do with beauty and visual representation...
...bomb Taliban and terrorist targets that can't shoot back. You go after air defenses in order to protect your pilots. After a couple of days of leveling what air defenses they have, you move on to the next layer, which would be military depots, secondary command structures, even prosaic things like motor pools and housing for soliders, if there...