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...miles northwest of Kandahar, is famous for its lush vineyards and pomegranate orchards. It is also a key symbol for the insurgency. Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, but were never fully able to conquer the Arghandab district, which remained an outpost of mujahedin defiance. Its shady groves, raisin-drying barns and deep irrigation canals provide excellent cover for fighters. Kandahar residents worry that the militants could use the Arghandab district as a base for an attack on the city itself, in an attempt to regain their former power base. "Arghandab is a strategic district, which the Taliban...
...National Socialism. It outlived that twisted purpose to take on a more benign and, for many Berliners, vital role. When West Berlin was blockaded by Soviet troops in 1948 - 60 years ago this June - Tempelhof served as the city's sole lifeline to the West. Cargo planes, known as "raisin bombers," ferried in supplies - from potatoes to Hershey's chocolate bars - every three minutes around the clock for 15 months. The place became a symbol for the West's cold war resolve, which for Berliners culminated in John F. Kennedy's 1963 declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...Although he grew up in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, he is through and through a Kentucky gentleman. Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson are some others who might strike you as celebrities, but to us they are native sons. Kentuckians by and large try never to get above their raisin' by forgetting where they come from. And they can turn on the charm and charisma at will. We tend to have never met a stranger, and once we're a friend, we're always a friend. Brad Noel, LEXINGTON...
What connection do you have with the character you portray in A Raisin in the Sun? -Shirley Jones Luke, BostonA very strong connection. A lot of people think that because I have been successful, I have forgotten that I grew up in Harlem. My father was killed when I was 3 years old, so I also grew up in a house with three women-same as Walter Lee. The anxiety that you feel when you may not become someone that you want to be, I was able to relate to that...
...multi-aliased rapper, an actor and a fashion mogul, and his intense turn as an ambivalent striver in the TV-movie adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun airs Feb. 25 on abc. Sean Combs will now take your questions