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...great service. That way, there would be no fighting between America and the Afghans." On the road back to Quetta, we pass a Koranic school where kids have constructed a row of toy antiaircraft guns to take shots at imaginary U.S. warplanes flying out of the desert sunset. I hope the border guard gets lucky: it might allow those schoolkids to grow up without training their sights on real U.S. fighter jets...
...wearing-ethnic-clothing-because-it-makes-a-fashion-statement” sense reigns in a restaurant that doesn’t struggle hard to maintain a Mexican patina. Aztec and Toltec and Mixtec objets d’ art abound, and the decor is suitably sunset yellow and darkened wood...
Dershowitz has urged the government to involve civil libertarians in whatever decision they make that might alter civil liberties. He has also advocated a “sunset provision” on any changes to civil liberties that may occur—meaning that changes would be eliminated after a certain amount of time so there is no “permanent diminution” of civil liberties...
...from the rubble was hearing reports of volunteers who looted triage sites, took equipment from trucks, and stole doctors and firemens uniforms to walk around the site. There was one guy who was actually rapelling off what was left of [the World Trade Center]. There I was, a beautiful sunset in the background, a leg sticking out of the rubble, and a lunatic 100 feet above me climbing like a monkey. It was totally crazy, Akana says. Its great that so many people want to volunteer, but if youre there to gawk and fool around, its totally inappropriate. I kept...
Kayaking back to our boat, we sailed until sunset, dropped anchor in a secluded cove and stretched out on deck to watch meteors flash across the night sky. Out in the bay, lights from squid fishers bobbed on the horizon like fallen stars. Behind us, moonlit rock giants towered over the still waters and silver beaches in their timeless repose. In the dark silence, Ha Long Bay was holding onto its beauty...