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...MCGIRK HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CAREER OF AFGHAN LEADER HAMID KARZAI FOR MONTHS AND RECENTLY SPENT A WEEK WITH HIM. He doesn't strike you as the typical thuggish warrior chieftain. He is too courtly, too intellectual. But when he was in exile in Pakistan, Hamid Karzai had an intensity that attracted all kinds of Afghans to his salons. I remember sitting at a Karzai banquet with an Afghan former communist general, a Kunduz tribal elder and a wizened chess master. Karzai listened to them as equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then...
...guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting in 1960 to flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. Of WIM DUISENBERG, 66, Dutch first president of the European Central Bank, who will step down in July 2003, three years before the end of his term; in Maastricht. On his appointment, the French government claimed it had reached an agreement that he would retire early to make...
...leaving a portion of his worth to the mujahedin," says the French official. Accompanying that document was a letter Cherifi wanted read to his son, then just 18 months old, in the event of his death. "It urged the boy to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a warrior of Islam and martyr of jihad...
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...before daybreak on a rainy summer morning last July, three large trucks pulled up to the gates of an outdoor sculpture museum south of Seoul with some unusual passengers. The trucks were carrying 70 wooden crates: inside, carefully wrapped in felt, lay the statues of 65 Korean scholars, one warrior and four children. Elegant, stylized figures chiseled from blocks of gray granite hundreds of years ago, they once stood guard over the tombs of Korea's royal families. But the statues had not been seen in Korea for half a century. Most of them had disappeared during Japan's occupation...