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...Although Taliban chief Mullah Omar has urged the defenders of Kunduz to resist, the local commander, Mullah Dadullah, has previously clashed with his supreme leader. Local observers are not surprised that he may be seeking an honorable way of keeping his men alive. And like those who retreated from Mazar-i-Sharif, many Afghan Taliban fighters in Kunduz may be quite willing to leave the foreigners to their fate, if not to turn their guns on the "tourists" who have reportedly killed hundreds of Afghan Taliban...
...together by the voice of the elder Charlotte, corrosively cynical yet fearless in her honesty. She is the sort of woman who, as her career and its privileges evaporate, can calmly observe, "We are interchangeable--the first lesson one learns as a professional beauty." She asks, "How could I resist the offer of attention and money, the very polestars whose gleaming emanations had navigated my existence?" when she's approached by a creepy website that stage manages events in the lives of "ordinary people" so it can offer phony documentaries about them on the Internet. Her answer to that final...
Putin has recognized that a missile-defense system isn't a threat to Russia, U.S. officals say; he just needs a prestige-preserving agreement as weighty as the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Bush wants to scrap. But Bush Administration hard-liners resist any formal treaty that would constrain U.S. power...
...encouraged by my producers to resist my temptation to include novelty songs on this one, as I've always done before. I'm glad we did. This CD has a serious tone, but I hope it still has a lift...
...city is far beyond the movement's traditional heartland, its capture having served as a symbol of the Taliban's ambition to rule over all of Afghanistan. Its fighting forces reportedly remain strong and resolute in the west, south and east of the country, and their will to resist appears undiminished. Still, the loss of Mazar-i-Sharif on the eve of winter would be a timely reminder that while they may well hold out for many months yet, time is not on their side...