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...hadn't been given the job of the final assault. We established our last camp at just under 28,000 feet. I can remember there were some very fierce gusts of wind, whistling around the mountainside. We'd hear it coming before it actually hit our cotton tent on this sloping snowy ledge, and Tenzing and I were inside and it seemed to us it was the main thing that was holding the tent down was our weight. We didn't know anything about wind chill factor in those days, but the wind chill factor must have been very considerable...
...spent long hours together, chronicling tragic stories of death and displacement. Though his English was a work in progress, we quickly found a way of communicating where to go, what to ask, and when it was time to politely decline another strong coffee and move on to the next tent. Dani took the task very seriously, telling me he believed my articles would bring help to his people. During breaks, hanging out with other kids and American volunteer doctors, Dani could be much less serious, talking up a storm with his toothy smile and contagious cackle...
...town of 70,000 located 25 miles (40 km) south of Kosovo's capital, Pristina. They moved from village to village in southern Kosovo before taking a train to the Macedonian border, and then an all-night bus to Senokos. When he brought me to his family's tent, his mother showed me one of the few keepsakes she'd managed to grab before fleeing: Dani's seventh-grade class photo. Her son, she told me proudly, was a star student...
...years since then, though my attention and that of the world at large shifted away from his would-be nation's struggles, I never forgot Dani. A photo that I'd snapped of him holding his class picture in the tent in Macedonia still hung above my desk. In October, as the question of Kosovo's destiny became more and more acute, I tracked Dani down again, eager to know what had become of him and his homeland at this watershed moment in history. Stepping through the sliding glass doors at Pristina airport, I spotted that same giant smile...
...Pakistanis, Qazi figures the U.S. wants Musharraf in power no matter what he does. There are even growing rumbles of discontent within the Pakistani military; some officers worry that increasing public anger at Musharraf may rub off on them. "Over the last few months, morale has folded like a tent," says retired Lieut. General Talat Masood. "[The troops] are not trained for this insurgency, they don't have the equipment, and they don't have the support of the populace...