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Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the "Lion of Panjshir," Ahmed Shah Massoud, revered commander of the anti-Taliban forces, assassinated two days before the attacks on the U.S. Yet the loose collection of Northern Alliance fighters now calling themselves the United Front, who have doggedly held their narrowing ground for five years, are filled with high hope. American bombs are coming. America will help them win the victory they couldn't win themselves...
...clue can be found in the tens of thousands of oiled Westerners squeezing onto the beaches a few score kilometers to the west. By comparison with Bali, Lombok's white sands and mountain hikes are gloriously empty. So steep has the decline in tourism been that industry workers like Roy are back tending fields and renting rooms to refugees from East Timor. Of course, with visitor numbers down, Lombok is also very good value. But, more importantly, islanders swear they have learned their lesson. The Muslim militias blamed for much of last year's troubles also suffered in the downturn...
...lost. From your hotel, pick a path along one of the terrace tops and simply follow it. By switching course no more than half a dozen times, walkers should be able to construct a largely flat circuit through layered rice and tobacco fields, along steep riverbanks and past villages set in the rolling, verdant landscape. This is true Marlboro Country. The red and white murals of cigarette packs painted on the sides of drying towers show where farmers dream of sending their truck-wheel-sized leaves. Tobacco may be a pernicious business, but here at its roots, as villagers strip...
...here?s the good news - economists seem pretty certain that the stock market will pick up by the winter, with a V-shaped economic recovery (steep decline, and steep return) beginning in the first quarter of 2002. Then it?s up to middling growth in the second quarter, better-than-middling in the third, with a full-fledged brand new boom coming to an economy near you by this time next year...
Harvards men faced steep competition against the likes of the University of New Hampshire, Boston College and Providence College...