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...actually quite lovely in Mazar. There are signs of the coming spring, and the stalls are stocked with fruit. Mazar appears prosperous, with traffic jams a commonplace because of the many nongovernmental organizations in town. But it's all a veil over a disintegrating situation. Mazar's warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum is engaging in a wave of ethnic cleansing against the area's Pashtun minority. There are continuing stories of rape, looting and pillage against them. On the surface, Mazar appears to have moved beyond the war, but it is a powder keg. Kabul, on the other hand...
Patrick Malahide is magnificently irascible in this role, his frosty wit a thin veil flapping erratically over the vulnerability that now defines him. Barry sympathetically depicts Silvester as a man who knows he has done wrong, but believes that his motives were always noble. "What a pity love is no defense" he reflects, an image cleverly crystallized in a tale of his childhood, when he accidentally transmitted a fatal fever to his baby sister by hugging...
...that no one could explain or seemed to want to investigate. She knew that others who had pressed then CEO Jeffrey Skilling about the investments had run into trouble. One of her friends, then company treasurer Jeff McMahon, had been transferred when he "complained mightily" to Skilling about the "veil of secrecy" surrounding the outside deals...
...that no one could explain or seemed to want to investigate. She knew that others who had pressed then ceo Jeffrey Skilling about the investments had run into trouble. One of her friends, then company treasurer Jeff McMahon, had been transferred when he "complained mightily" to Skilling about the "veil of secrecy" surrounding the outside deals...
Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...