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...moderates in the Taliban ranks. The unprecedented talks, which began last week, seem to have the Bush Administration's blessing. Karzai's mediator to the Taliban is its former Foreign Minister Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, who was released last Monday after 20 months in custody at a U.S. military base near Kabul...
Muttawakil remains close to his former captors. His family says he stays at the U.S. base in Kandahar for his own protection. Taliban hard-liners, including former Afghan leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, consider Muttawakil a traitor for having surrendered to U.S. forces and have ordered his assassination. Still, his family tells TIME, Muttawakil has taken the risk of sounding out some of his former comrades in Kandahar...
...millions of Chinese, the Long March is a seminal historic event. In 1934, the more-than-80,000-strong Red Army, having been routed by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, retreated from its base in southeast China on a harrowing yearlong slog that killed 9 out of 10 soldiers?but ultimately, by saving the core cadre to fight another day, set the stage for the Communists' victory, launched a nation and turned a little-known guerilla fighter named Mao Zedong into a hero...
...Japan: Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel On Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost (and snowiest) island, Niseko boasts some of the world's best powder skiing, with three diverse ski areas?plenty to keep skiers busy for a full week. The hotel, a comfortable modern complex at the base of the slopes, offers six-day lodging and meal packages for $1,350, including lift passes but not transportation...
Koocher, however, notes that nearly half of DeBergalis’ support base could be gone by the time the 2005 Council race begins. The transient nature of Cambridge’s student population—nearly a quarter of which leaves the city each year—lends itself to creating an unstable constituency...