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...will be replaced by professionals who are not part of local power structures. Anyone trying to do this in Khost could be in for a tough time. The brothers, fervent royalists, fly the royal banner from official buildings, not the current national flag, and pictures of deposed King Mohammed Zahir Shah adorn their cars. Their own way of ruling has a regal feel. The 55-year-old Pachakhan, Governor of three provinces, is an irascible potentate who holds court in the time-honored manner, seated on cushions at the far end of a long audience room. A bandolier hangs over...
...students who were elected are Zahir Asmal, Melissa E. Fuchs, Bruce L. Gottlieb, Janna J. Hansen, Jerry Y. Hsu, Megan L. Peimer, David A. Sobel and Nicholas Stavropoulos from Adams House; Ryan J. Bradley, Elizabeth A. Davis, Chong-Min Hong, Andrew S. Jacobs, Moon K. Lee, Daniel C. Ramirez and Wolf from Cabot House; Brian A. Lanman, Guy Maytal and Duy T. Nguyen from Currier House; Kathryn E. Shea from Dudley House; Alison V. Davis from Dunster House; Roy Astrachan, Ross D. Blank, Christopher P. Herzog, Luba A. Kobrinsky, James A. Parson and Nicholas R. Szumski from Eliot House; Katherine...
...Zahir R. Ali '94, BSA president during hisjunior year, says the BSA's agenda is changing,but that change is natural in an organizationseeking to re-energize the Harvard community...
...most pro-Western and secular of the mujahedin leaders, despite his claim of direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad. Gailani's National Islamic Front is nicknamed the "Gucci Muj" for its leader's taste in well-tailored camouflage uniforms. Though he favors the return of exiled King Zahir Shah, Gailani is also a fervent believer in Western-style elections...
...factions disagreed over everything, from the role that ex-King Zahir Shah should play in the rebuilding of war-torn Afghanistan to the composition of the shura itself, some spectators had the eerie feeling of watching a car accident taking place in slow motion. "This is the last chance for Kabul," says a Western diplomat based in Islamabad. "If it collapses, Afghanistan will collapse into fratricidal bloodshed...