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...cement that holds together the opposition Northern Alliance. In other times he would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority not over some alphabet-soup unit...
...Arabic and English greets visitors at the front door: ALLAH IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF ALL. Inside, the drab walls are devoid of decoration, bare but for a calendar. There is no television on the TV stand, but in its place sits a Koran wrapped lovingly in an embroidered shawl. The women are sequestered, and a peaceful silence prevails...
...crushing effect of China's responsibility system can be seen in the case of a 55-year-old doctor in a city near Beijing. With her gently permed hair and knit shawl, the GP is solidly middle-class and had been thinking about retirement. But she practiced Falun Gong and protested in Tiananmen Square. Upon being arrested, police escorted her by bus back to her hometown; there, colleagues were waiting at the station with the hospital's Volkswagen. She was handed over to her friends, and the car sped off?away from her home. "Where are we going?" she asked...
Above left: Vincent van Gogh, 'Sien's Sister with Shawl,' 1883, chalk and graphite...
...woman who wears a shahtoosh should be deeply embarrassed," says George Schaller, a renowned biologist who has called attention to the plight of the chirus. "It's not a shawl; it's a shroud." Shame might not stop the trade, but this will: at the current rate of poaching, the species is likely to be extinct within 20 years...