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...resistance by the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and the U.S.-led forces in 2001. Today, the bullet holes along the walls of the fortress remain unplastered. Shoib Najafizada, Afghan Logistics and Tours' man in Mazar, leads visitors around the rusty remnants of tanks and heavy artillery that lie strewn around. Like other guides, Najafizada offers firsthand accounts of some of the key moments of the country's recent turbulence. He was present at the battle of Qala-i-Jangi, as a translator for the coalition forces, and today he deciphers the untouched graffiti scratched in Persian and Urdu into...
Martirosov said Goldin “smashed the glass real good”—glass shards were strewn about the car and got stuck in the gear shift, preventing him from shifting gears and driving...
...we’re lucky.” Marie C. Kodama ’09, who is taking off the semester, was spending time in her hometown of Houston when Ike struck. She said that even in her relatively undamaged neighborhood in west Houston, dozens of trees are strewn across the street, and many streetlights are bent in the wrong direction. “Almost all of Houston is congregating in the two big malls because they’re the only ones with power,” she said. Kodama said that a general feeling of frustration has taken...
...Sundaravej. In the early morning hours of Aug. 29th, protestors - some armed with bamboo poles, others with sporting gear more often associated with the Scottish highlands - managed to evict hundreds of police offers from the grounds of Government House. After celebrating their victory, the demonstrators snoozed on sleeping mats strewn across once-manicured grounds that usually host foreign dignitaries...
...about the introduction of contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant piece in the French magazine Beaux-Arts about the biggest show to date, an exhibition by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held earlier this summer in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a table strewn with feathered sculptures depicting the severed heads of seven owls in the same room as Van Dyck portraits, and a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones sharing a space with 21 Rubens depictions of Marie de Medicis. The show was part of a series called "Counterpoints," designed to give...