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...current member states agree in Brussels on a common position for financing enlargement, they still have to work out details with the candidate countries before the crucial December summit in Copenhagen. Though out of government, the LPF could still be a spoiler. Angry at their ejection, party leaders threw sand in the gears of parliament last week by declaring the entire state budget open for debate. That dissonant note may end up as the party's swan song, though. A recent poll found that if elections were held now, the LPF would retain only four of the 26 places...
...cannabis is doing to Afghanistan is to be found at the village of Deh Naw, half an hour to the north of Mazar along Afghanistan's main north-south highway. Just out of sight of the hash hills upstream, the desert is swallowing Deh Naw whole. Five-meter-high sand dunes have crashed over the village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access...
...storms are terrible," he says. "Even if you have something to eat, you can't open your mouth or it just fills with sand. All you can do is hide and sleep." Shakur has given up blaming anyone for Deh Naw's troubles. He knows the landowners for whom he once worked the fields around Deh Naw are the same people who now deprive that land of water for the sake of greater profits in the hemp-rich hills. But after 23 years watching a succession of conquerors?the Soviets, the Taliban, and now the Northern Alliance and the Americans...
...left, there were two women, one dyed blonde with large gold hoops and tight sand-blasted jeans, the other in an olive shirt and dark pants, overweight with shaggy cropped hair. The blonde gossiped, nodding and swaying as she talked. I heard about the slashed tires, what woman was back in jail and why her rehab had worked. The other, larger woman didn’t talk half as much. It’s been a long month, she said at one point. I paid one of my bills twice…it’s been a long month...
Although Harvard students have never matched MIT’s outrageous “hacks,” they still went to great lengths to amuse themselves. Stories are still told of the suitemates in Lowell who held a pool party in their room, trucking sand into the dorm and blowing up an inflatable pool. The party ended with a splash when too many students jumped into the pool and the floor fell through. When the Cabot dining hall flooded in the 1980s, students dove in and practiced the breast stroke...