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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seems that peace in this mountainous region is at risk. At midnight one day in late July, more than 200 heavily armed young men identifying themselves as Taliban stormed the shrine of a famous freedom fighter in the tranquil village of Ghaziabad and took over the adjacent mosque. The heavily armed militants, their faces covered with camouflaged balaclavas, kicked out the shrine and mosque caretakers and put up sandbag bunkers atop the mosque roof and nearby vantage points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Next Red Mosque Problem? | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

...India, perhaps anywhere in the world, has the density and variety of Rajasthan's fabulous monuments. Its three most famous destinations-the pink city of Jaipur, the blue city of Jodhpur and the lake city of Udaipur-teem with hidden delights, from bustling local markets to old observatories to tranquil gardens. Further afield, ancient holy towns like Ajmer and Pushkar afford winding urban explorations and peaceful lake views with fewer touts and tourists in the way. The golden city of Jaisalmer, with its Persian-inspired villas and trains of camel caravans, rises out of the desert like a hallucination from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Ruins | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...asking. Arranged according to their visual rhythm, the images brim with possibility and are a pleasure to browse. Lovers embracing on the grass are juxtaposed with darting splashes of water; a flight of fluttering birds is counterbalanced with the utter stillness of a male figure lying by a tranquil stream, his head and legs artistically out of frame by benevolent mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Art | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...hotshot London policeman (co-writer Simon Pegg) is transferred to an apparently tranquil English village after showing up his superiors in this buddy-cop satire from the spoofmeisters behind Shaun of the Dead. All is not as it seems as Pegg (above right) and his lovably oafish sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths. The twosome pursue criminals so exuberantly and the violence is so spectacular, it's like Lethal Weapon but with brains--and scones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Apr. 30, 2007 | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...however, you enjoy good music that may not be particularly mainstream, than this record’s for you. “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone” is a great album to relax to, and transports the listener into a much less complicated world of tranquil musicality. It will also be released in two-disc format, with the latter disc providing remixes of the songs by a number of semi-famous artists, such as Jesu and Paper Chase. Having not heard the remix disc, I can’t say whether it will promote the same...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Explosions in the Sky - "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" (Temporary Residence Ltd.) | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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