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...strikes should leave the survivors disoriented and incapable of fighting. Small strikes, they argue, have the opposite affect, working like inoculations. Soldiers become used to the raids, scornful of them, and gradually lose their fear. Around Kabul the U.S. has opted for small strikes. This is not quite the torrent of fire that U.S. psywar communications here have threatened to unleash on the Taliban...
...Grolier for many years, Solano assumed ownership on January 30, 1974, after Cairnie’s death. It took only two days as owner for her starry-eyed idealism for the endeavor to fade. Cairnie had lost the back room of the store to the Harvard Book Store, and torrent of visitors from Harvard had slowed to a trickle. The boards on the floor creaked “like a ship in full sail.” While it was immensely comforting to those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing...
...this new awareness is in evidence it would be impossibly difficult for me and others to fall in line, in spite of growing pressure to stop all honest enquiry and to back unconditionally anything the U.S. may do. I have expressed these views this week and have faced a torrent of abuse from the right-wing British newspapers and some fanatical U.S. loyalists. "True" Muslims also hate me for saying I would support action against the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and for being too damned Westernized...
...heartened by the hundreds of thoughtful people - both Muslims and non-Muslims - who agree that this new understanding is essential. I fear, though, that these conversations are already being drowned out by events, the movement of weapons and the torrent of rash words (such as "crusade" and "dead-or-alive") spoken by leaders who should know better...
...bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side of 60, it was harder than we had expected. But we made it. And what...