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This is not the first time warlords have had positions of power in Afghanistan. Following the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops, rival mujahedin groups that had united to drive the foreigners out turned on each other, further destroying the country in a brutal civil war marked by warlord rule. The government collapsed, and militia commanders were able to seize territory, terrorize the population and, in some cases, even issue currency. The Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow...
Good ol’ Soviet intrigue just doesn’t entertain like it used to. In “Chess,” two world-class players at the end of the Cold War find themselves caught within an ever-growing game of politics and trickery, a game that fails to amuse. Though propelled by strong individual singing and the occasional catchy tune, “Chess,” which ran this weekend at the Adams House Pool Theater, never escapes the boring confines of its rigid and outdated black-and-white plot...
...common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close to him,” said Nabokov scholar Professor Leland de la Durantaye, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English. John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck, acquired the book from a Soviet emigrate as part of a larger collection of pieces inscribed by Nabokov. “I must have offered to buy the collection 600 times before he sold it to me,” said Wronoski. “The price it sold for wasn’t even that high...
...with missiles capable of reaching the United States—Russia and China—have cut their supplies by almost 72 percent since the Cold War’s end. The case for missile defense systems was tenuous even during America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union; today, it’s indefensible...
...offering little return on investment to the United States, missile defense has cost America immeasurably in the diplomatic arena. In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were on the verge of agreeing to a “double-zero” deal in which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union would eliminate their entire nuclear stockpiles—and with them the specter of nuclear war at large. But Reagan’s refusal to surrender his “Star Wars” missile defense shield scuttled the agreement. More recently, the Bush administration’s decision...