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...next day, he went to the Red Cross tent, where a Navy chaplain told him about the family-support center at the Sheraton across from the Pentagon. Sincock had never done any grief counseling before, but, in a way, his own loss made him the truest form of grief counselor. Those who visited the center came to see him as a hero. "All I could do was share my own story with them," he says. "Tell them what I've found. And that there is hope." After Sincock's first day there, Lieut. General John Van Alstyne...
...arbitrary. On a recent rainy night in Jakarta, hundreds of adherents to one of the most powerful fundamentalist groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), cram into trucks and minivans and head for a slum on the west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer. A brawl almost erupts, but the vagrants lose their nerve and flee. The militants retreat...
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Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife's unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
...Only once did I enter a tent when the women hid their faces. The husband sold plastic jewelry on a street in Kandahar, and he had two wives. The second one was his dead brother's widow. He explained to me that his two children died during a nighttime bombing raid last week on Kandahar. They thought it was safer to sleep outside. Then his wife, who was wrapped in a dark green shawl, said: "My baby died while I was giving him milk. He was killed by a flying piece of metal while he was in my arms taking...