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...common impulse for conquerors to slip off and have a nap in the enemy's bed. That's why I wasn't too surprised to find a man sleeping in Mullah Mohammed Omar's bed in Kandahar. He had his machine-gun next to him, and when I asked him if he was dreaming of Mullah Omar, he growled "I'm too tired to dream," and he covered his head with a wool blanket...
...glanced around the room. The bed was small, considering that Omar has three wives and calls himself the Commander of the Faithful. Omar had run off long ago, as soon as the Americans started bombing Kandahar, and he hadn't left behind many personal mementos in his bedroom: a poster of the Medina mosque, some syrupy medicine, and the word Allah painted in gold and black on glass...
...solver, and I enjoy that. You learn how to solve problems by making a lot of mistakes and going through it. But I think it feeds my life. There’s nothing like working hard at the end of the day, and you’re lying in bed, and you think, “You know what? I couldn’t have given more to any area of my life.” And that’s kind of how I live my life, the best way that I can, with dignity and respect for other...
Harrison’s true conviction that the world could become a better place is hard to find among the members of our generation. John and Yoko refused to get out of bed in the name of world peace; Harrison was a man of action, organizing the first celebrity benefit concert to alleviate famine in Bangladesh in 1971. His deep conviction in the power of inner peace and spirituality is a remnant of a time when people believed that it was possible to change the world by loving thy neighbor. In losing Harrison, we lose a part of our parents...
...from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures’ fabrics. Hannah Barnard’s cupboard and Betty Foot’s bed rug indicate the importance that was placed on maintaining gentility even on the new American frontier...