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...Sopen B. Shah ’08, runner-up in the America’s Junior Miss 2004 competition, agreed that some Harvard students get the wrong idea when they hear about her participation in the contest...
...Sept. 9, 2001, assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Massoud is a dark little corner on the early 21st century chessboard. Al-Qaeda's killing of the anti-Taliban commander is often said to have paved the way for 9/11: a pre-emptive elimination of a likely ally of the U.S., which was bound to invade Afghanistan in response to the attacks...
...What does this sorry mean?" Asks Takbeer party leader Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai. "They are bombarding villages because they hear the Taliban are there. But this is not the way, to bomb and kill 20 people for one Taliban. This is why people are losing hope and trust in the government and the internationals." Like many Afghans, Ahmadzai is starting to suspect a more sinister meaning behind the recent spate of civilian deaths."The Americans can make a mistake once, twice, maybe three times," he says. "But 20, 30 times? I am not convinced that they are doing this without intention...
...public transport. When the police stopped him from mounting the steps, he detonated the bomb, which appears to have been packed with ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel the roof of the bus off and hurl it 10 meters [30 feet] away. General Ali Shah Paktiawaal, head of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, had just pulled up to the gate when he felt his bulletproof car leap in the air from the force of the blast. "I thought it was a landmine," he said. The rose garden at police headquarters, protected from the street...
Kapuscinski's work is itself something of a library, including more than two dozen volumes of biography, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography, translated into nearly 30 languages. The Emperor was the first in a projected trilogy about dictators. The second installment, Shah of Shahs, traces the rise and fall of Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Kapuscinski labored for years on a third volume, about Uganda's Idi Amin, but apparently could not find words for his excesses. When the Soviet Union foundered in the late 1980s, he abandoned Amin and headed for Moscow. The result, Imperium, is a perceptive travelogue...