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...repair the mistakes of the past decade as a recognition of how they had tried--and failed--to prevent those mistakes from unfolding. In Kosovo and East Timor, the U.N. has begun to turn nation building into a science, learning how to construct functioning governments and societies in countries torn apart by hate. It is a skill the U.N. may soon be called on to apply in Afghanistan, a land where its efforts have been repeatedly--and sometimes brutally--thwarted by the Taliban...
...average Uzbek, this presence of yet more foreign troops doesn't bode well. Since independence, the nation's standard of living has plunged, despite a period of relative peace in this war-torn region. Inflation is a debilitating 10% per month and the average annual wage is less than $100; skilled professionals like doctors scrape by on $15 a month. Now Uzbeks have reason to be increasingly worried: three days after the U.S. began its strikes on Afghanistan, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash, announced that his fighters and the Taliban would launch a jihad against...
Rosen especially shines in these sequences, shedding her elusive guise and emerging as a powerful figure that commands the attention of all those in the theater, on stage and off. As Abida plays off of her, the duo create a riveting electricity that assails an audience torn between pity, shock and amazement, and which itself acts as an extra, voyeuristic character in the play...
...plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative political forces on the ground...
...better job, I could not have led a university on Sept. 11. I could hardly speak, the news was so debilitating: the colossal towers of the World Trade Center lay in a heap of rubble; the Pentagon stood, but with a gaping wound; thousands of innocent people were torn from their friends and family before their time...