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...fight on against any new government. The Northern Alliance, for its part, remains united by their hatred of the Taliban rather than by any shared vision, and defeat of the common enemy may reopen old wounds among its various tribal factions. Moreover, while many Alliance leaders are inclined to accept the principle of a unity government formed around King Zahir, the Alliance is still nominally loyal to Barhanuddin Rabbani, the president overthrown by the Taliban but who is still recognized by the United Nations. And matters are complicated by Rabbani's opposition to the king and his own desire...
...Bellevue psychiatrist says. The downtown folks are frustrated that they still don't have phones and that people uptown are getting pedicures done as though nothing has changed. "She's trying to isolate herself," says a downtown refugee of her uptown sister-in-law. "She doesn't want to accept reality at all." Meanwhile some uptown people feel brave for not having sold their condos and decamped for Vermont. Others have...
...irony of this strange war is that just as we see the limits of what money can buy, buying becomes our patriotic duty. Perhaps we'd need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands...
Much has been said about the risks of negotiating with unreliable allies such as Pakistan or Egypt: their political volatility and the presence of small but significant fundamentalist groups inside their territories have led many to have misgivings about, or reluctantly accept, these last-minute alliances. Moreover, some have utterly denounced these covenants by predicting the potentially dangerous consequences they might bring in the short-run. Re-arming or collaborating with these “volatile” regimes is perceived as an unwise military strategy, for the ever-changing political fate of those states could suddenly turn them from...
When he came to the podium, Summers began his address with an unscripted, enthusiastic, “I accept!” that echoed his original Loeb House press conference almost seven months ago, when the University first officially introduced him as its choice...