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...year old boy, two 90-year old Afghans ("They look 110," remarked one visitor), a Sudanese TV cameraman from the al-Jazeera network, and scores of hapless Pakistani youths who heeded the cry of jihad but found themselves abandoned and robbed on the battlefield by their fleeing Taliban brethren. Others were packed off to Guantanamo because they failed to pay extortion money to Kandahar city's secret police chief - supposedly a U.S. ally - who then denounced them as bin Laden henchmen...
...when the cameras are on, like their Survivor and Fear Factor brethren, the performers come alive. Among the segments in the film is one in which Knoxville's friends administer paper cuts to the webbing of his feet and hands before submerging them in an aquarium full of rubbing alcohol. In another, Steve-O, who had never walked a tight-rope, walks one over a lake swarming with alligators. (He falls after two steps but somehow avoids getting hurt.) One has Magera, known for traumatizing his father on the show, breaking into the bathroom while his father...
...year-old Afghans ("They look 110," remarked one of the camp's few visitors), a Sudanese TV cameraman from the al-Jazeera network, and scores of hapless Pakistani youths who heeded the cry of jihad and found themselves abandoned and robbed on the battlefield by their fleeing Taliban brethren. Others were packed off to Guant?namo because they failed to pay extortion money to a Kandahar city secret policeman?a supposed American ally?who then denounced them as Osama bin Laden's henchmen...
...York City and bartenders in Dearborn, Mich., are wearing the same hat. This time around, it's the mesh baseball cap, and it's usually worn high on the head, for a hardy agrarian look, or sideways, for a dash of urban knowingness. Pontiac, John Deere and their industrial brethren had been planting logos on the caps for years when in the late '90s aspiring rock musicians in such hip neighborhoods as the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y., started wearing them as a tribute to Rust and Farm Belt masculinity. Now fashion designers like Heatherette, below, place them...
...that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat-e-Islami is a cultured, well-traveled cleric who speaks with the measured finality of a judge passing a grim sentence. Several of his new brethren, in contrast, are unquestionably flamboyant. Maulana Fazlur Rehman wears robes of golden thread and was dubbed "Maulana Diesel" after allegations were made?though never proven?that he was involved in a fuel scam. Maulana Samiul Haq earned the nickname "Sandwich Sammy" after being photographed (presumably by Pakistani intelligence officers...