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...rebuilding the failed state of Afghanistan with international assistance. Maintaining the security of such a government in the face of multiple dangers is a task that may fall to the international community - a prospect that is sure to displease the Pentagon in the event that Washington is asked to shoulder a substantial role in a peacekeeping mission. Early indications, though, are that Turkey, NATO's only Muslim member nation, may be slated to provide the bulk of any peacekeeping force...
...working assumption of Osama bin Laden (or his sympathizers and/or copycats) is that the way to beat an economy that won?t make a move without "stability" is to keep it looking over its shoulder - and worrying about its mail - as long as possible, and keep pushing back that season of calm optimism another month, another quarter, another year...
...person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions. "We are not trying to pretend to be black people," says Yan, who sports a scraggly goatee and a tattoo of an Alaskan killer whale totem on his shoulder...
...would think that someone like Naldur would be ready to sign up for his game cards, given the toll bronco busting is taking on his body. Last year the school psychologist from Layton, Utah, broke a rib and a leg, ruptured his spleen, separated his shoulder and suffered a concussion. Each time he taped himself up and got back on the horse a few days later. "Every autumn I have a retirement party," Naldur says. "Then in spring the snow melts, the flowers bloom, and I realize nothing's really changed except I'm one year older." His wife Mazie...
...knew we had. Maybe normal is not a useful word for now, too slippery and glib. Maybe transcendence for the moment lies with routine, doing the same things as before, even if we do them differently, with a heavier heart or a lighter touch or a glance over our shoulder. The rescue workers keep saying that they are just doing their jobs. And so they invite us to do the same...