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...military debris--from MiG fighters to helmets--is being bulldozed into piles. The runway apron has been extended. Offices and a gym are under construction. The Post Exchange supply shop has begun to accept credit cards. There are even efforts to control the ever-present dust, a fine gray chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while U.S. officers concede that the mission in Afghanistan has no end date, they do like to point to the fact that most of the new construction is in wood, not brick...
Montgomery never shies away from important issues and never takes the easy way out in dealing with them. With a few deft strokes, he manages to compress every in-between shade of gray into the dialogue and actions of his characters. Like the state of the world it reflects, good and evil are not always so clear-cut. Part of Hank’s journey of growth entails understanding and dealing with that realization...
...nice side. The glass windows, which comprise two of the walls and the ceiling, offers a nice view of green grass. Nibble on a fresh mozzarella sandwich and ponder Harvard’s strange fascination with concrete. It’s true that pretty much anything goes with gray, but in the spring a little more color would be nice. Inside, Calla Lilly is rather drab, with little in the way of decoration. The sole poster is one of a very young Michael Jordan wearing a blue button-down with a silver tie: “No Brain, No Gain...
...most cynical, superior Europeans would concede. The blunt language that Bush used after Sept. 11 sent a message, and it was heeded. Countries like Pakistan and Yemen were left in no doubt as to where their interests lay, and they acted accordingly. But in the muddled, shades-of-gray world of great-power politics, neither moralism nor clarity can ever be enough. That lesson the Bush Administration has now learned. Pity about Chechnya...
...often how we define ourselves; where we met the people we marry or the lovers who ended that marriage. It's where our ethics are tested. For the great gray majority of Dilberts, it is our battleground--or burial ground. For when we lose that job, we lose part of our identity...