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...Gish Jen ’77 will teach a seminar in women’s studies, Women’s Studies 165, “Advanced Creative Writing: Beyond the Navel,” and David Weber will teach two courses in history, a lecture course “Southwestern America: Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos,” and a conference course “Historical Approaches to the Hispanic Southwest, 1540-1848.” In fall 2003 and spring 2004 C. Matthew Snipp will teach two courses in sociology, “American Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective?...
Although the Kandahar government has made dramatic announcements of Taliban surrenders, many of the trumpeted capitulations have turned out later to have been shams. In Baghran in the southwestern province of Helmand, formidable Taliban General Abdul Wahid, known as Rais the Baghran, was said to have given up around Jan. 5. The next day, TIME met with the resolute Wahid. Most of his arsenal and troops remained intact. To this day he controls the district. After surrendering to the Kandahar governor, Jalalabad commander Mullah Salam Rakti retreated to his home base in Qalat. A day later, government soldiers sent...
...least two weeks' treatment. Anything less may reduce stress, but is unlikely to provide medicinal value. "If you have sinusitis, I need about two weeks to treat you. For paralysis, it's about three months," explains Dr. Deepthi, my physician in pink at Beruwela, on Sri Lanka's southwestern coast. Wait a minute?she's cured paralysis? "Of course," she shrugs, "but it's a very long treatment...
...Although the Kandahar government has made dramatic announcements of Taliban surrenders, many of the trumpeted capitulations have turned out later to have been shams. In Baghran in the southwestern province of Helmand, formidable Taliban General Abdul Wahid, known as Rais the Baghran, was said to have given up around Jan. 5. The next day, TIME met with the resolute Wahid. Most of his arsenal and troops remained intact. To this day he controls the district. After surrendering to the Kandahar governor, Jalalabad commander Mullah Salam Rakti retreated to his home base in Qalat. A day later, government soldiers sent...
...eating out of bowls fashioned from halved coconut shells and learning?the hard way?to gut, clean and scale fish that we then roasted over an open fire. Our days were spent exploring the island both above and below water. There's an extensive coral reef on the sheltered southwestern side, with a healthy population of reef fish and some larger predators such as sharks (mainly black and white tips), stingrays, turtles and barracuda. We also found two sea eagles nesting in a strangler fig in the interior of the island...