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...this Indian Kashmir valley, where devastated houses barely stand at odd angles, missing walls from which crumbling rock and debris poured down. An entire row of shops has lost its front, as though sliced off by a blunt cheese wire, and bars of Lux soap, pastries and plastic toys spill out onto the street. We pass broken villages and military camps, including an artillery battery swamped by a mudslide, still vainly pointing toward Pakistan 10 miles away. There are three or four checkpoints. Then a landslide announces the end of the road and an end to any visible relief effort...
...their hideout in the mountains of north Kandahar. According to reports of the battle, which involved coalition special-ops troops, as many as 30 Taliban fighters have been killed out of an estimated force of 165. Turner and his company are assigned to wait for the Taliban when they spill out of the ravines. It's a tall order: there are a dozen draws leading out of the mountain labyrinth, and Turner has no way of knowing which escape route Hannan and his men might choose...
...advantage of a large class is that students share a common intellectual experience. Discussions of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant spill out of Sanders Theater into the Houses and dining halls,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...Homi Bhabha brings to the Humanities Center...a keen eye for cultural and political questions that spill across academic disciplines,” Sandel said. “His bold and generous vision of the humanities is sure to attract colleagues from across the University into lively and unexpected intellectual engagements...
...conclusion. The Bush Administration has indeed put unprecedented effort into the war on terrorism, especially in Iraq. But instead of quenching the passion for jihad, the Administration's heavy-handed actions have stoked it. Worse yet, the centuries-old, long-dormant hatred between Shi'ites and Sunnis threatens to spill into a horrendous civil war, with wider implications outside Iraq. And one thing is sure: appointing the same exiled career politicians to power isn't going to solve anything. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Bangalore, India...