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...down the village's main street, were anxious to shift the blame. The Hazara's troubles and the destruction of the Buddhas were the work of Pakistanis and Arabs, the foreign jihadis, says one prisoner, Nisar Ahmad. "It was a very,very bad idea," he says. "We are very sad." The war may be over, but the destruction wrought by the Taliban, like Khan's razing of Shahr-i-Gholghola, seems destined to live in the Hazara's memories for centuries to come...
...About the only thing that didn't fail was Sherron Watkins' flair for numbers. In the sad tale of Enron's collapse, Watkins is the closest thing to a hero in sight. When she goes out for coffee, strangers stop to give her "attagirls" and ask for her autograph. She still goes to work each day at the company's headquarters in downtown Houston, where the tilted logo out front has yielded Enron a new nickname: the Crooked...
...Lots of people know people [who died in the Sept. attacks],” says one longtime resident. Like everyone else they were sad and angry, she says, but “we’re too liberal to have problems—there’s too many cultures here already [for anyone to feel antipathy to new cultures...
...road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and elsewhere is long and difficult. But that road, albeit the one less traveled by, is the only one worth taking. Violence begets only violence, as Arafat should have learned by now. Such gunboat diplomacy is a sad relic of the past; Arafat and his ilk should not be allowed to impose it on the future...
...Sad indeed, but also preventable. How? In order to effectively stem grade inflation, the admissions office must take positive and real steps towards reducing the academic quality of future classes—otherwise, grades will continue to inflate, like so many balloons, and we shall all be doomed...