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...bottles return, empty, and the women fill them up again and toss them back. Aman disappears out the gate. "I will do everything in my power to protect my madrasah," she says. "I am ready to die for it." An hour later I find her again, pressing a wet rag to her streaming eyes. "I wanted to die, but my elders stopped me." Friends, crowding around, nod in sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the Believers | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...been a key figure, over the past two years, in uniting a rag-tag mix of indigent opium farmers, hardened Islamic fighters and bandits into an effective insurgency that has stretched NATO's resources. "After the fall of the Taliban, all the Taliban escaped to different areas, and he was the only one to marshal them and bring them together as a cohesive force," says Waheed Mujda, author of a number of books about the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After a Taliban Leader's Death | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...ability to be dominant in a sport we loved to play as children. This also reflects our city’s patriotic origins. As we rebelled against the aristocratic British imperial system in favor of a more egalitarian government years ago, so too do we rally around a rag-tag band of brothers that play a democratic game accessible to all. While only the fortunate few can ever hope to live the Paris Hilton lifestyle, we can all pursue happiness on the baseball diamond—no trust fund is necessary to dream of Major League glory. Thus, while Californians...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Ball Cap Betrayal! | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

...pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood on his ladder wiping soot from the street sign with a rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: A New World Ablaze | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

Second, you have to think about your safety. Do the people of New Hampshire even want politicos in their granite state this soon? If a rag-tag group of hooligans (otherwise known as campaigners) invaded my neighborhood—well, there’s a reason I’m a pro-gun liberal...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Stop the Madness | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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