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TIME's Alex Perry was one of the first journalists to enter Mazar-i-Sharif after it fell to the Northern Alliance. There he met Ustad Mohammed Atta, a general who helped drive out the Taliban, and learned of the bloody aftermath of the city's fall. Read Alex's...
In wartime Hungary, Andris--age eight and passing as a gentile under the Slavic name Andris Malesevics--learned never to urinate in front of other children, lest his circumcised penis give him away. Sensible policy. In Budapest's City Park one day in 1943, a little girl turned to him...
Young Willie, like his father, is shrewd enough to the know the power of keeping his mouth shut. But he lacks the confident self-awareness to make things click. So it's surprising and not too convincing when Chandran turns out to have writing talent. He contributes scripts to the...
What are Afghan women really like beneath the burka? Talk to three from Dasht-i-Qaleh, a tiny, impoverished village long held by the Northern Alliance. Though the Taliban's restrictions against women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its...
The Harvard men’s soccer team learned yesterday that it has made the 2001 NCAA Tournament, and will open play in Connecticut on Saturday.