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Those fighters sometimes seem to be the only things that move. In Shah-i-Kot you will rarely find a goat or a donkey or even a dog. Clusters of abandoned or destroyed mud-brick houses stand silent. Just a few weeks ago, these high-walled settlements were home to al-Qaeda fighters and their families. Now they look like a kind of Dresden transferred to a tiny, medieval world. In the village of Sarkhankhel, charred headstones are all that remain of many houses; crumbled walls carpet the ground. It's as though a finger of retribution reached from...
...last Friday, scores of police vans wove through the donkey carts on Liaoyang's streets. Workers were demanding the release of four leaders detained by police and the sacking of government official Gong Shangwu, a delegate to the National People's Congress?a dangerous appeal that smacked of political dissent. "It's the first time I've heard of worker demands going beyond economics and into politics," says Ching Kwan Lee, a sociologist at the University of Michigan who researches labor. "Now we have great power," said one worker, "especially if we stay united...
...SHREK It's the donkey, dummy. He's a needy nuisance, a sweet-souled cynic, a brave coward, a bouncy optimist. In Eddie Murphy's brilliant vocal characterization, he's just the guy to lift Mike Myers' eponymous ogre out of his slough of despondency and serve as long-eared Cupid in his romance with Cameron Diaz's princess. The movie runs on his delightful spirit--and runs right past an adult's expectations for animation. We usually hope not to get too restless as we indulge the kids in their cinematic treats. But this pretty, fractured fairy tale offers...
...Donkey Sex Issue...
...many less educated ones?if you can question them where men cannot hear. The heavy cloth covering can induce panic, claustrophobia and headaches. It's a psychological hobbling of women that is akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life threatening. Try negotiating a busy Kabul street?around donkey carts, careening buses and the Taliban roaring by in Datsun pickups?when your hearing is muffled and your vision is reduced to a narrow mesh grid...