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...training. In the 1980s, Washington fueled Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion by passing billions of dollars of covert aid to mujahedin fighters. Once the Soviets pulled out, the mujahedin turned on one another, and the country descended into civil war. When the Taliban--a band of warrior students--swept into Kabul five years ago, it imposed a ruthless Islamic rule. It brought peace to the city, but the world was outraged by its practices, including public executions and a ban on work for women and schooling for girls. Music, TV and photographs were prohibited, and men were forced...
...swept away by "Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South," edited by William Henry Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad and the staff of the Behind the Veil Project" (New Press; November), giving it a starred review. The book and CD draw on the 1,200 interviews with African-Americans that make up the Duke University collection called Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. Says PW, "Viscerally powerful...Readers and listeners will confront ?the dailiness of the terror blacks experienced at the hands of capricious whites,? and of ?the capacity...
Amid so many confusing proclamations of war; so many calls for action in which action is understood as bellicose; so many flag-waving cheers for armed retaliation; I am concerned that the very real pain of those killed, wounded, and mourning is in danger of being swept away. The toppling of the towers of the World Trade Center and the breaching of the Pentagon are events whose grandiosity, played and replayed in images across the world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered...
...recent days, a spate of violence directed against Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans has swept the U.S., in misguided attempts at retaliation for the attacks...
Given these obstacles, what the Crimson accomplished two weekends ago seems even more impressive. Harvard was able to hang tough with a team that had swept the Crimson last year, a team that returned its top seven scorers from 2000 and had already beaten No. 14 St. Francis this season...