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Could I ask the veterans in the audience to stand, please?" Wesley Clark asked last week at a town meeting in Exeter, N.H. As the applause swelled, Clark walked over to the American flag at the rear of the stage. He took the flag in hand and unfurled it, almost wrapping himself in it. "That's our flag," he said lovingly. "We saluted that flag. We served under it. We fought for it. We watched brave men and women buried under it." He was shouting now: "And no Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft and George W. Bush is going to take...
...five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 kilometers of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity...
...Southeast Asian network of Muslim militants blamed for numerous bombings region-wide, including the October 2002 attack in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Nyupeno flatly denies police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used as a way station by militants traveling to and from the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines for combat training. No, says Nyupeno, he has never heard...
...Kyrgyzstan - a country that makes up in character what it lacks in vowels. If the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 km of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan Mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity. Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport...
...steps of an escalator descending into the T station. They reassemble on the outbound platform, glancing at the tracks as an Alewife-bound train rumbles above. For a moment, the station falls silent. Then at once there is music, echoing off the crimson tiles and turning heads toward the rear of the platform...