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...been put to use by the artistically talented to display small and bizarre objects, the musically misguided who hunger for the popping noise made by the sound of a flat palm on hollow concrete and the alcoholically-inclined who have discovered that the holes are the exact size and shape as the cap of a beer bottle...
...identity and generosity of their foreign patrons. There's still a war raging, and reaching an agreement may be relatively simple compared with the challenge of implementing it. After all, the Northern Alliance commanders are the de facto rulers over much of Afghanistan until any new dispensation takes shape. Complicating matters is the fact that the groups gathered at Koenisberg are not exactly a comprehensiv e cross-section of Afghanistan's contending militias, political organizations, tribal structures and ethnic constituencies, and there's a tremendous power imbalance between them...
...principally the postcolonial world, its tormented past and upheavals that Naipaul has spent most of his career chronicling. It is also what members of the Swedish Academy had in mind when they awarded him this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Naipaul's novels and reportage have helped shape our perceptions of places we hear about only when they are hit by civil wars and famines. His oblique stories about his journey from obscurity to knighthood suggest how difficult ?it must have been to reinvent himself in a society that treated its colonials like illegitimate cousins...
...Afghanistan's neighbors have historically sought to shape her politics to their needs, from the 19th century "Great Game" between the Russian and British empires to the Soviet invasion of 1979 and Pakistan's intervention via the Taliban in the mid 1990s. The Northern Alliance has enjoyed the support of Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Russia, each for their own reasons, while Pakistan threw its weight behind the Taliban. The regional dynamic may now be critical to international efforts at brokering a compromise. Even as it prioritizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden, on the diplomatic front the U.S. finds...
With Jantzen and Rechul at the helm, Harvard looks to be in good shape for its trip to Las Vegas...