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...everyone is buying the warlord's new clothes. Dostum rose to power as a ruthless brawler, the Mike Tyson of Afghan politics. For a decade he moved in and out of alliances with almost every major faction on the Afghan battlefield - the Taliban included. His zest for brute strategy can be traced to his love for bozkashi, the traditional sport of the northern plains. It's not a game for the faint of heart. One team of horsemen battles to haul a dead goat to one end of a field; opponents struggle to wrest it back and drag...
NICOLE KIDMAN (Moulin Rouge) Born: Honolulu Moved: c. 1970, age 3 "There's something about the place; it's the smell of the gum leaves. Australia's in my blood, it's in my humor...I love [Sydney's] zest for life and the openness of us Aussies." KYLIE MINOGUE (new album, Fever) Born: Melbourne, Australia! But currently lives in London, visiting home twice a year "My poor parents have three kids living about as far away from them as you can get--and they're very cool...
...read that skater Sasha Cohen finds it necessary to psyche out and distract her opponents by clipping them during warm-ups and using mental tactics to win. Cohen's lack of sportsmanship in her zest to be No. 1 leaves the viewer wondering whether it is cunning or ability that brings home the gold. MARJORIE A. CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, Calif...
...important events of my life thus far can be plotted neatly on a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious timeline. I made my first trip to the Magic Kingdom with my parents at age two. Baptized in pixie dust and reborn a Mouseketeer, I expressed my gratitude and newfound zest for all things Disney by throwing up on my mother during the ride home. By my fourth birthday, we had relocated from Boston to Orlando, where my parents immediately set out to procure Florida driver’s licenses and annual passes to Disney World...
...some, she epitomized the poor little rich girl. The younger sister of the Queen seemed to have everything: wealth, beauty, wit, freedom from too onerous a royal workload, the zest to pursue a glamorous, sometimes controversial lifestyle in the most rarefied echelons of society. Yet the lasting memory of Princess Margaret will probably be that of a sad figure who was unlucky in love and who never really found a fulfilling role in life or a lasting marital relationship...