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...shrapnel. Now, according to Taliban lore, he gathered together 30 like-minded men to avenge the abduction and rape of two young women; the guilty warlord was captured and killed. A movement was born, in the rare words of Omar, as "a simple band of dedicated youths determined to establish the laws of God on Earth and prepared to sacrifice everything in pursuit of that goal...
...goes, a disarmament initiative would serve as a gesture of good will towards the United States and its upcoming war on terrorism. From a regional perspective, it would help Sinn Fein establish a greater degree of trust with Trimble’s party and also prevent a collapse of the volatile coalition government in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has cautioned that “the politics of pressure against the IRA is counterproductive.” It remains to be seen whether or not disarmament is a legitimate possibility...
...flips over "Esther Stories" by Peter Orner (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner; paper; November 2), giving it a starred review. "Innovative, original and fresh as a breath of perfumed summer air, these 34 stories capture pure emotion so vividly they tremble with contained life...This extraordinarily fine collection should establish Orner as a new star of American short fiction." Author tour...
...civil liberties are treated differently." World War II produced the internment camps for Japanese Americans, a development upheld in 1944 by the Supreme Court but later repudiated. After the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma City, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was authorized to establish a new court to consider the deportation of suspected alien terrorists, in which cases would be heard without the usual obligation to inform the accused of the evidence against them...
...stalled too long, other papers would grab public attention and we’d be seen as behind the news. We went ahead and published, eager to establish our ground as a reliable source for readers to depend on for up-to-date information...