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...nice island-counter top in the middle that collects things like junk mail and form letters from the Vermont Society of Bar Examiners and now, since it is holiday season, pictures of smiling children and beautifully groomed dogs whom no one has ever met. The linoleum floor is swept frequently and, like I said, the Cuisinart is first-rate. But for so long so much of the food in that kitchen was off-limits or bad or would lead to inevitable disappointment if I touched it. So it is a bit emotionally charged as rooms...
...Wrong, say the hawks. They believe Afghanistan has shown just how effective U.S. air power can be when used in conjunction with indigenous proxy forces against a hated regime. If the U.S. invests enough in the Iraqi opposition and then mercilessly bombs the regime's forces, Saddam can be swept out of power like Mullah Omar...
...Despite bloodcurdling threats, Northern Alliance commanders had been somewhat reluctant to launch the promised frontal assault - Thursday's deadline was the third "final" ultimatum for the Taliban to surrender. But despite the fact that the Alliance has swept into Kabul and liberated half of the country, there hasn't, in fact, been a single pitched battle in this war. The Taliban's sequential withdrawals have for the most part spared the Alliance from having to fight street-to-street for control over any city. And the fundamentalist movement's demise has come about in large part because many...
...campaign that turned the capital into rubble and killed thousands. Hekmatyar was sometimes joined on the battlefield by the Uzbek militia of General Rashid Dostum, a former security chief of the Soviet-backed regime. Eventually, with direct military support from Pakistan and financial aid from Saudi Arabia, the Taliban swept to power in 1996, vowing to end the bloodletting...
...stayed seven weeks until he ran out of money, but that was long enough to get hooked. Cambodia?its war, its people, its tragedy?became an obsession. After a year of mandatory military service back home in France, he returned to Cambodia in 1975, just as the Khmer Rouge swept to power and plunged the country into the abyss. For the next 25 years Neveu would return to photograph whenever he could...