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...most notorious of the Abu Sayyaf still been able to reign, and that's Abu Sabaya. Many, many people think that Basilan is a little island, three miles by three miles; it's not. It's 30 miles by 30 miles, and the forest canopy is so thick that even if you're standing 10 feet apart you can't see each other. Whether or not there is a link between terrorists in the Philippines and al-Qaeda, it doesn't matter. The fact is we have terrorists here and they are the enemy in this global war against terrorism...
...Daocheng, a two-day bus ride from the Sichuan capital, Chengdu, rent a jeep and follow the road past thick forests and open fields, where herds of yaks make their way down to winter grazing grounds, to the Yading Nature Reserve. Once in Yading, trade in your mud-spattered jalopy for a hardy Tibetan pony that can better fare the torturous 14-km trek to Luorong Pasture. From there the view of the Konkaling range is breathtaking. Farther along, the three sacred peaks of Chenrezig, Chanadorje and Jambeyang?named after a trinity of Tibetan deities?loom over the landscape...
...imagine that the envelope you received wasn’t quite so thick. Heck, imagine that all it contained was a single letter, beginning with those oh-so-dreaded words: “We regret to inform you that we cannot offer you a place in the Harvard College Class of blah blah blah...” You’ve just been rejected! Now change the school to Stanford, change your name to Shaun, videotape the whole ordeal and BAM! You’ve got yourself a pivotal scene from Orange County, the new teen comedy from our friends...
...Malim Mirwali is like no other Afghan I have met. His shoulders are thick like heavy sacks of flour, his chest broader than a 40-gallon drum. He has pylons for legs. The hand he offered in greeting swallowed mine whole in a fleshy palm, then wrapped it in fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town...
...spirited Mullah Omar to safety. He stopped a few paces short of me and cased me out, looking up and down with a careful eye. I put his age a shade over fifty, but athleticism still oozed from him. For a "white-bearded old man", whose beard is still thick and black with streaks of grey a meagre concession to age, he looked as though he could stride on to a battlefield tomorrow...