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Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife's unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
...Perhaps we will have some excitement on a Sunday night,” we thought. For once, the grumbling masses became the bubbly masses, as there was a sense of vindication to our exodus—after the million repeated practice evacuations, one most notably last year amidst freezing rain at 7 a.m., we were finally responding to a real emergency. We were leaving with purpose...
Finally, after I'd been crying so much it didn't feel cathartic or useful anymore, I wrote I'm Not Gonna Cry. ("Listen to the thunder/Dark clouds fill the sky/Well it looks like rain and I hear a train/But I'm not going to cry.") That was the start of getting back to some sense of normalcy. After that, Homeless, Missing You, Living Alone and the others, maybe some of the best songs I've ever written, sort of happened...
...onset of winter may also hamper U.S. efforts to use helicopters in strikes and to deploy special forces - freezing rain reportedly played a role in bringing down the helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan last Saturday, and the weather last week restricted U.S. efforts to insert more commandos on the ground...
...syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the Harvard Syndrome inevitably resorts to terms like lazy, arrogant, spoiled, overrated and elitist whenever our university comes up in conversation. Often, they will have little or no actual experience of Harvard, beyond a tour and perhaps a disastrous interview. Indeed, the sufferer may even have no idea what polysyllabic words like...