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...green metal boxes of ammunition with Russian writing on them, and a canister about the size of an unexploded cluster bomb but the wrong color - red instead of yellow. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition, mostly bullets for Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. Another nearby was much bigger and also filled with ammunition. Its cavern sloped up and back and seemed to lead to a passage, but nobody ventured...
...Tuesday morning nearly all the Arabs had followed to higher ground, where they fired mortars and machine guns at the advancing mujahidin. Three fighters on a strategic ridge held off the advance for much of the morning before a volley of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades blew them apart. Two were later dragged to a command post and dumped on the ground for mujahidin fighters to gawk at. One was so mangled that his torso faced the sky and his legs faced the ground...
...story of faded genius, familial dysfunction and redemption, The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, yet emotionally mature piece of work co-written by Wilson and Wes Anderson, the tag team behind the deliciously demented comedies Rushmore (1998) and Bottle Rocket (1994). But while Wilson plays the outsider in the film, in reality, Anderson seems to be the one on the outside, looking into the Wilson family of actors...
...drawn to men who make you feel perky, mischievous. You’re going to marry someone rich and famous. [I knew it!] It will be a quickie marriage. [Oh, no!] In and out. As soon as you get into it, you’ll be like a rocket trying to get out of it! [Oh no!] But it will teach you a lesson that you had to learn for yourself. [Oh, okay.] Marriage brings you fame. [Cool!] It will catapult you to life in the fast lane. [Really cool!] I see fine hotels [But do I not have...
...village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says. "We had nobody to look after the family, so I came to Kabul." Now that the Taliban is gone, she will try to find work cleaning offices or homes...