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...from the Zadran clan, aged from 17 to their late fifties, control the key positions of power in Khost and the whole of the two surrounding provinces of Paktia and Paktika. One brother, Amanullah Khan Zadran, looks after the family's affairs in Kabul where he is Minister of Tribal Affairs and Border Questions in the new Cabinet?a position that traditionally has gone to someone from Khost as a way of trying to keep the area more or less under Kabul's control. Another, Pachakhan Zadran, governs Khost, Paktia and Paktika. His deputy for Khost province...
...Also, ixnay on the whole tribal thing: Yes, yes, I know. I've never seen one of those tribal councils that end each episode and result in someone getting the boot. So maybe they're really riveting. But c'mon. They sound goofy as hell. These are people from places like Long Island, for gosh sakes. The only tribal councils they're allowed to go to are Mets games. Instead, how 'bout something nicely understated, like they all sit down to dinner at places with their names on the plate, only - get this - one person doesn't have a place...
...after the Super Bowl Jan. 28, before moving to Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T., some things remain familiar: 16 people still arrive in a remote setting with minimal supplies, divide into two tribes (Kucha and Ogakor--that's "kangaroo" and "crocodile" in Aborigine) and vote to expel members at tribal councils. They compete to win challenges designed around nature and the elements--in Water Torture, strong players are loaded down with heavy buckets of H2O. The grand prize is $1 million. And Jeff Probst, America's favorite tropical bartender, hosts...
...American involvement end with dinners and ladybugs. Kennedy hated the idea of the U.S. being drawn into the looming European catastrophe. His patriotism was genuine but isolationist and, in the Kennedy way, tribal. Eventually, of course, he came home from London in something like disgrace, dismissed as an appeaser and defeatist...
...part a tribal impulse that led Amanda Smith, a 33-year-old Harvard graduate student who is a granddaughter of Joe Kennedy and daughter of Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen Smith, to embark on the project of sifting through some 600,000 pages of Ambassador Kennedy's papers in order to produce Hostage to Fortune, The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (Viking; 764 pages; $39.95). As Smith describes it, her search through the often crumbling documents (some uncatalogued at the JFK Library in Boston, some forgotten in a warehouse in Long Island City, N.Y., and others found in the attic...