Word: scenarios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kabul residents celebrated the demise of the Taliban by shedding mandatory beards and burkas, and switching on long-dormant television sets. But as they contemplate the perilous unfolding of the post-Taliban political scenario, many may soon be reminded why the Taliban were actually welcomed by many residents when they first seized the city in 1996 - they hoped the fundamentalist militia would at least bring peace. Now rival warlords within the Northern Alliance and among former mujahedeen commanders in the Pashtun south are deploying fighters to stake their claim to post-Taliban Afghanistan, and next week's U.N.-sponsored talks...
...worst-case scenario How might this order affect legal aliens living in the U.S.? Professor Pyle offers a grim example. Let's say there's a Pakistani man who's living here legally, he says. He owns a chain of motels, and one day, all of a sudden, he's arrested. When he asks why, officials tell him it's because he "harbored" a suspected terrorist, a man who once stayed in the motel for a while and took the owner out for a beer. Instead of being held at the local police station, the Pakistani man is taken...
...Nations World Food Program. But when the bombing began, these organizations were forced to abandon the eight million Afghanis who depended on them for their daily bread. Suppose the food drop operation was flawless and all 37,000 daily packets reach their intended recipients. Even under this best-case scenario, millions of Afghanis will starve. While our bombs may kill a few hundred Afghanis, the bombing campaign will be indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions...
Though Harvard finished behind Penn in the Ivy standings, the scenario won’t necessarily repeat itself in the NCAA tournament. The key indicator is that Harvard played the toughest nonconference schedule in the Ivies, while Penn’s was among the weakest...
...Local commanders have been quoted as saying quite the opposite, and the truth is that the Alliance remains deeply divided within its own ranks. Many of its Tajik elements on the Kabul front support the return to power of President Barnharuddin Rabbani, ousted by the Taliban in 1996 - a scenario repugnant not only to the Pashtuns and their Pakistani backers, but even to other factions of the Northern Alliance. But Russia, set to become the quartermaster-in-chief to the Alliance, has already pledged to back Rabbani's return, and it may yet take some furious geopolitical horse trading...