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Restored to her job as director of physical training for the air force, the energetic Khatol, who is in her early 40s ("A lady doesn't tell her age," she says), has to make sure soldiers stay in shape. But after 22 years of war, things are in such disarray that the force simply is not equipped for the usual drills. Some soldiers don't have shoes to wear. Government coffers are nearly empty, and salaries have not been paid for months. In early July Khatol spent the better part of her days hounding officials in the Defense Ministry...
Ending the slave trade was a noble undertaking. So is the war on terrorism. But we cannot allow it to define who we are or to shape all the ways in which we act in the world. If we do so--to use the old refrain--the terrorists really will have...
...robert of the private bankers? association. "If it?s just a question of abolishing something that we hold dear in order to help the competition, we?re not interested." Says Thomas Baer, chairman of Bank Julius Baer: "German banks, as all banks, are not in as good a shape as they were, and they?d welcome any opportunity to go against their competition...
...many cases, joining up with local warlords. Many of their leaders escaped capture, too, most notably the one-eyed peasant mystic Mullah Omar - who has eluded capture by the U.S. despite the widespread belief that he remains based in the mountains of his home province. And the shape of the post-Taliban order in Kabul may have paradoxically helped set the stage for a Taliban resurgence...
...face broke into a smile. "That's great!" A group of fellow Nanjing artists laughed and pointed at the leather-faced farmer in a worn Mao jacket who, along with his wife and son, was cheerfully scooping armfuls of seaweed from Yu's installation: a giant ditch in the shape of a gingerbread man, which was filled with water and what was once $50 worth of seaweed...