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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band of onetime seminarians and clerics who formed an army just two years ago, the Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war, first during the 1979-89 Soviet occupation and then as various groups fought for control of the country. The Taliban were hailed as peace-bearing heroes when they captured the capital two weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions...
...jagged yet controlled rendition of Aneurysm. Performed live, the hurt is more apparent--affection is an affliction, talent a curse, and the crowd roars with every howl of pain. Alternative rock was meant to be a refutation of processed pop--this CD, recorded, flaws and all, at various concerts, is a tribute to untamed rock. It has the power to make a dead band sound alive...
...group has members in 37 of West Virginia's 55 counties. He would not say how many members are in the group: "You don't divulge your strength or weakness to the enemy. Currently it's Bill Clinton and the press," Looker has said. The seven were arrested on various charges, including conspiring to make bombs, transporting explosives across state lines and plotting to place explosives near the FBI fingerprint center. Terence Nelan...
...controversial issue that "will almost certainly be discussed" is the allocation of space for the various community service programs, Skocpol wrote in an e-mail message...
Champion of photography as art, pioneer gallery operator, husband of the prodigiously talented Georgia O'Keeffe--these are but a few views of the career of Alfred Stieglitz. Now showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a well-rounded, varied exhibition presents Stieglitz's accomplishments in various modes, artistic and professional, with the added treat of works by several key contemporaries (not the least of whom is O'Keeffe herself). The appreciation of Stieglitz and his photography in the context of his time, without excessive social commentary, lends an instant appeal to the presentation...