Word: provinciale
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The subject arose again two nights ago, when a relative visiting from the provincial town of Maragheh (385 miles northwest of Tehran) praised me for planning a vaginal delivery. "Most women these days just aren't willing," he said wistfully. Usually, I'm reluctant to admit my decision, as people...
Unless he changes track, Ahmadinejad could soon be left with a small core of supporters, composed mostly of the provincial poor and radicals who share his hard-line ideology. One of my cousins still keeps faith in the president, correcting me when I fail to call him Dr. Ahmadinejad, as...
Because a municipal police officer was involved in the shooter's death, the provincial police will investigate.
"Our soldiers are spread thin on the ground, and the Taliban is taking advantage," says Lt. Col. Kevin McGlaughlin, who heads the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Qalat, the provincial capital. Maizan is one of the places they're targeting, and McGlaughlin has begun to notice that Taliban attacks are becoming...
The Taliban's resurgence is Zabul is notable precisely because the region had once been touted as the Coalition's success story in the south. A U.S.-led provincial reconstruction project saw the construction of a new hospital, a woman's center, a job-training facility and a new bank...