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...future is uncertain, the recent past is an all-too-well-substantiated fact. The Taliban made Afghanistan a laboratory for the systematic oppression of women. What it did will haunt that nation and the world for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Face for Afghan Women | 11/25/2001 | See Source »

...Their resistance is unsurprising - while the Northern Alliance have been willing to forgive the Afghan Taliban all along, they have previously threatened to kill all the foreigners. The cease-fire deal announced by General Dostum Thursday offered safe passage home for disarmed Afghan Taliban, but imprisonment, trial and an uncertain fate for the foreigners. And in light of reports of massacres of foreign fighters from other towns seized by the Alliance, it would be surprising if the "tourists" accepted the deal made by their Afghan comrades. Artillery barrages launched from inside the city Thursday, which were taken by the Northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kunduz Reveals the Fluidity of Afghan Battle Lines | 11/21/2001 | See Source »

...just the decision about where to go to school that weighs on families; it is simply harder to send children out into an uncertain world, whether for the traditional eighth-grade school trip to Washington, a spring-vacation trip south or a summer abroad. The Teitelmans of Oak Park, Ill., have an idea what they will be talking about around the table next week: What will son Matt, 15, do for his summer vacation? Matt has been saving since he was a little kid for a summer trip to Israel. His sister Joan, 18, who went there last summer, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Gather Together | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...INVENTOR Carmina O'Connor --AVAILABILITY Uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost its way and is facing an uncertain future," says curator Kent, "a damaged generation." In this sense, "NEO-TOKYO" is very much the art of post-traumatic healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day-Glo and Darkness | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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