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...nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats. The Russians are here, too. In Bishkek's bars, you can rub shoulders with off-duty troops from the newly opened Russian air base a few score kilometers away as they drink and dance to hard-core Russian techno. And in Fatboys, a popular café, men in suits and dark glasses talk about the region's geopolitical significance. The youth of Bishkek show little nostalgia for their country's Soviet past. Their yearning for something new is palpable on the streets - in nightclubs such as Soho...
...increasingly a resurgent Taliban. Two years after the government in Kabul was routed, black-turbaned militants are again stalking the dusty villages and towns of the Pashtun heartland. High-ranking Afghan sources tell TIME that the Taliban is trying to unite with the Pashtuns under one leadership. A core of 250 Taliban veterans is recruiting a fresh generation of young zealots from the refugee camps and madrasahs in the Pakistan border tribal areas. Tragic U.S. blunders like these help recruit them. Many Afghans who are not sympathetic to the Taliban are reluctant to help U.S. forces patrol their villages, fearing...
However, he warned that despite hopes a new curriculum could be in place by Fall 2005, implementation of the new system could take time, noting that setting up the Core took four years after its ratification by the Faculty...
...which core classes he would choose for sweaty pig love, life partner. (“Throwing the Knuckleball,” December...
...school. I would be the model student, acing every paper, playing varsity tennis and keeping up my regular sitcom-watching schedule. When I didn’t make the tennis team, I went to my plan B—joining The Harvard Crimson and becoming one of the hard-core news writers. I did it at the time because to me it seemed like the thing to do. When the incoming managing editor told me freshman year that The Crimson was the alternate route for Harvard students who didn’t like school, I looked at him incredulously...