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Since Sept. 11, the President and other U.S. leaders have urged Americans not to act as though the sky is falling. They have said we should be alert, but they have also told us to get out and see a movie, order a steak, maybe fly to see Aunt Lisa in Palm Springs. Behind the mixed message is a question: How can we strike a balance between watching for future attacks and getting on with normal life...
...nice people. There were exceptions, of course--and he listed a few favorites--but by and large the act of rising to a position of high political power, he said, demanded a willingness to put ambition before humanity. Annan stopped for a moment and stared off into the pink sky. "Perhaps," he said, "this explains an awful lot about the world...
...Kabul, as opposition troops mass in preparation for a final offensive against the Taliban. In Jabal-us-Seraj, an opposition-held town 47 miles north of the capital, the narrow streets are clogged with irregulars arriving from Northern Alliance garrisons across the northeast. Distant explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj--U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander...
...Kabul, as opposition troops mass in preparation for a final offensive against the Taliban. In Jabal-us-Seraj, an opposition-held town 47 miles north of the capital, the narrow streets are clogged with irregulars arriving from Northern Alliance garrisons across the northeast. Distant explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj?U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander...
...other side of Miyazaki is on full display: the childlike enthusiast, bursting with inventiveness. The multicolored building pokes out like the stub of a rainbow from a wooded corner of a vast Tokyo park. A towering metal sculpture of a robot character from his film Castle in the Sky stands sentry. Inside, a handcrafted fan whirs like an airplane propeller from the glass ceiling of a four-story atrium. Elf-size doors lead to secret passageways, and tiny benches line the theater showing new Miyazaki film shorts...