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...love the idea of the Games, the spirit of the Games and the whole “international goodwill” thing that seems to occur during the fortnight...
...simple leather string. Her assorted Laura Ashley-esque flower print dresses and full petticoat skirts are unadorned, yet ethereal. Jane bakes bread. She knows how to make those Little House on the Prairie daisy chains and how to tell if it’s going to rain in a fortnight by smelling the tree moss. Jane thought of leaving it all and getting a job in town but realized that she would only be happy standin’ by her man on the ranch/farm… After all, who else would feed the little butter-colored chicks every morning...
...watches every day as armed militia drive his car through Jalalabad, the main city in eastern Afghanistan and the summer residence of the former King. Delawar hasn?t reported the incident to the police because there are no police. There is a security chief, a warlord who returned a fortnight ago with his supporters from Pakistan to reclaim the city, bloodlessly, from the fleeing Taliban. So Delawar asked him for help. "I told him that his men had stolen my car and I?d like it back," he says. But the new leadership, which is loosely affiliated to the Northern...
...watches every day as armed militia drive his car through Jalalabad, the main city in eastern Afghanistan and the summer residence of the former King. Delawar hasn't reported the incident to the police because there are no police. There is a security chief, a warlord who returned a fortnight ago with his supporters from Pakistan to reclaim the city, bloodlessly, from the fleeing Taliban. So Delawar asked him for help. "I told him that his men had stolen my car and I'd like it back," he says. But the new leadership, which is loosely affiliated to the Northern...
...Park, Ill., mounted their own response to terrorism. More than 200 of them ran around the block and through an open field next to the playground, panting, laughing and earning a sticker for each lap they completed in the name of their "Moving Us Forward" program. After a fortnight of morning runs, they cumulatively completed more than 1,000 miles, the distance from their school to the World Trade Center to the Pentagon...