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Sure, there is the occasional suicide bomb attack, but Kabul has long been synonymous with risk. And though Afghanistan's bustling capital still molders under the detritus of nearly 30 years of war, its historic attractions are now easier to enjoy, thanks to a plucky new travel company called Great Game, greatgametravel.com. Its mission is to give visitors a taste of the people and culture that made this city a vital crossroads of Asia and Europe for more than 5,000 years. "Even the foreigners who have lived here for years have no idea what Kabul is," says Jamshid Rahimi...
...just for four families. It was a turning point in an already foundering war. An ecstatic mob in the center of a major Iraqi town had torn Americans limb from limb in front of rolling cameras. A series of catastrophic recriminations followed. Muqtada al-Sadr, emboldened by the attack, called for the first Shi'ite uprising against the occupation. U.S. Marines retook Fallujah but flattened parts of the city in the process and set the stage for future cycles of invasion and uprising that have scarred the city--and the country--ever since...
...standard three per vehicle for security convoys. Berman testified that the presence of only two operators in Helvenston's vehicle contributed to his death because it "took away the entire back field of operation"--no third person in the rear vehicle who could be assigned to watch for an attack from behind...
...when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
...committee unanimously voted to scrap the race-conscious assignment system because similar programs had come under constitutional attack in recent years, according to Charles V. Willie, a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Education. The committee replaced it with a plan that focused on socioeconomic diversity...