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Since his initial visit to the License Commission, the small, soft-spoken Iftikhar’s life has become a series of disappointments. Due to years of noise complaints from the pizzeria’s neighbor, the License Commission refused to grant Iftikhar a permit to close the pizzeria at 3 a.m. last spring—but promised Iftikhar a hearing to reassess the noise situation in six months...
...Alliance's first attempt, two weeks ago, was a disaster. Rival warlords failed to properly coordinate a four-pronged assault on the city and instead ended up losing ground to its defenders. Since then, local alliance commanders have complained of a lack of ammunition and supplies, and have spoken of laying siege to the city through the winter and renewing the offensive next spring. But with little to show for its Pakistan-backed efforts to lure Taliban defectors and forge an anti-Taliban Pashtun coalition in the south, the U.S. has moved to shorten the Alliance's timeline on both...
...mean enlightened--or powerful. For the most part, all Taliban members still support the idea of a pure Islamic state, though some are willing to allow slightly fewer restrictions on women's education and travel, as well as on the treatment of minorities. Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rahmani, the soft-spoken, one-legged Governor of Kandahar, and military commander Ibrahim Baloch signal their brand of open-mindedness by giving TV interviews or meeting with female journalists...
...Osema wanted was a bag of onions. The soft-spoken former nurse, who had moved to northern Afghanistan from Kabul to flee repressive Taliban rule, was making her first trip to the local market. Around her face, she wrapped an embroidered green scarf; her lips were painted red. By the time she had passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in, pelting her with stones. Children finished the job by kicking up swirls of yellow dust...
...background music to the dancing alternates between poetry from Maya Angelou, music from Sweet Honey in the Rock and silence. Thirteen girls interpret the poetry of Angelou (which they also deliver vocally) with their movements in an attempt, according to the program, to “connect the spoken word with the moving...