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...their misery, many Afghans came to blame "the great American betrayal." They had fought on the front line of America's war; then America had walked away leaving them with a desolated country. The U.S., and the democratic West, did virtually nothing to reconstruct Afghanistan, too busy with post-cold war demands to pay attention to the needs of a landlocked, Texas-size country of 25 million tucked far away in Central Asia...
...seek to reconstruct our lives after the events of Sept. 11, it is important not to let confusion, intimidation or fear rule our actions. Instead, we must preserve the freedoms and liberties that have characterized this country. Calls for new security measures—at any cost —are now easy to make; it is much harder to preserve our basic civil liberties...
...tribesmen - recently completed another field season. But they estimate that it will take another 10 to 15 years just to uncover all the buildings at Mahram Bilqis and the surrounding pathways - and even then most of the site will remain unexplored. Eventually, the Yemeni government plans to restore and reconstruct the sanctuary in hopes of transforming it into what Glanzman calls "an eighth wonder of the world" - a tourist attraction comparable to the Pyramids or the Acropolis. (Yemen's political instability, though, makes that scenario unlikely anytime soon.) It also intends to petition unesco to designate Mahram Bilqis...
...month political battle between his father in Cuba and his anti-Castro relatives in Miami, is now happily ensconced with his playmates and family in his hometown of Cardenas. Initially, Castro made good on his promise not to turn the boy into a propaganda icon, and left him to reconstruct the pieces of his life in the sleepy coastal town. But the 75-year-old strongman appears to be finding the temptation to make propaganda around Elian too hard to resist - in July, he had the boy join him on the dais at a communist rally for the island...
...people, nothing jarred me quite as much as my library visit did. I’m a Harvard student, I don’t like to admit that I cannot understand something. It was during those three hours that I began to understand that blindness is not trying to reconstruct the visual world, but of learning non-visual ways to experience the world. One man told me in an interview that his definition of “pretty” was largely based upon an appealing texture, something very smooth. I thought of the zit on my forehead and realized...