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...Gilgit, members of khan Haji Rahman Qul's tribe see their culture disappearing even as they themselves are dying. For their very culture is wrapped up with their animals. Providing food, shelter, clothing, and goods for barter, livestock sustains the tribe's all-too-precarious existence. The women of the tribe--who must still cook, sew, and care for their families--have become the barers of the tribe's culture. But to survive, the tribe must have enough land at the right altitude to raise their animals in peace and carry on their nomadic existence...
...Qul first applied to bring his tribe to the United States in April, 1980. Accompanied by Alan Jones, an American relief worker, Qul went to the American embassy in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The two ran into a brick-wall of bureaucracy. In fact, all they managed to achieve was confusion--whether Qul was actually applying to immigrate to the United States, or not just informing the embassy of his intention to apply...
...Qul submitted a list of the people in his tribe who wanted to come to the U.S. Nothing was heard until Jones, then running a medical assistance program for Afghan refugees under the New York-based International Rescue Commission, inquired about the matter, and found out that Qul's petition could not serve as formal application for immigration. And so Qul went back to the embassy in April 1981, and filled out what he thought was the proper form. Told by the vice counsel that she would send the application on to Washington, Jones returned to Washington and inquired...
...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...