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...Taliban's morale won't crack until it suffers heavy battlefield losses. So long as the U.S. limits its ground operations to commando raids, the job of inflicting those casualties lies with the Northern Alliance. Alliance commanders have provided their strategy for toppling the regime to anyone who will listen: once American bombs softened Taliban forces, the Alliance planned to make its move into the key northern outposts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Taliqan, cutting a swath through the heart of Taliban country. As the Alliance rolled back the Taliban in the north, the thinking went, the certainty...
...final, crucial journey to Australia: some 4,500 refugees have landed in Australia in the past two years. But during the same period almost 800 have been officially classified as lost at sea, and some think that may be a serious underestimate. To get a sense of the risk, listen to the Middle-Eastern businessman who Jacky says is his boss, the man who heads one of the biggest Indonesian smuggling syndicates. Insisting in a telephone interview on anonymity, the businessman speaks in soft, precise English, explaining that he charges about $3,000 a head for his services and "gives...
...Listen, we’re going to get beat up [with allegations] by the kids,” Evans said. “We’re not by any means anti-student. We’re just trying to maintain a quality of life for residents...
...still the icon blinks and the in-box clogs and the available hard drive space shrivels into nothingness. Like a Wolf who cries “Boy!” they tell us we can say “no” and then don’t listen when...
...says the council does not listen to residents during the public comment period of each week’s meeting, which he no longer attends because he says they left him feeling “empty and angry...