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...largest training camp in Pakistan is run by Lashkar-i-Taiba, a wing of an Afghan mujahedin group known as Markaz Al Dawa Wal Irshad. It is set on a vast mountain clearing overlooking Muzaffarabad. (Training grounds for the other three militant groups are located in the North-West Frontier province.) Armed men guard the facility round-the-clock. There are only two structures, one an armory, the other a kitchen. Trainees live and sleep in the open, whether in the sweltering summer or the depth of winter. The field is dotted with installations used to teach the fervent young...
...matter where one happens to be, omnipresent signs show it is a special day. For instance, I spent my intercession skiing. At 11:30 a.m., I entered a mid-mountain lodge for hot chocolate. Two portly men shared a pitcher of beer next to me. Alcohol, altitude and Alta Mountain do not mix very well. On Super Bowl Sunday, however, the tenets of safe skiing take a holiday and male pride prevails...
...cappella version of "O Death," a stark, primordial Appalachian apparition. But even such an unvarnished evocation of mortality doesn't cast a shadow over the collection's - and the film's - overall mood of sweet melancholy, encapsulated by Harry McClintock's 1928 recording of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." Not only is there "You Are My Sunshine" and "Keep on the Sunny Side," but "Man of Constant Sorrow" takes on an increasingly jaunty tone with each reprise, as if to affirm that the best thing about that purely American sentiment called the blues is singing them...
...genre; there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious of these efforts, the mountain-gothic "Mountain Angel," Parton's narrative of a woman driven mad by grief is undercut by her cutesy, breathy delivery, a rare misstep for this most intuitive of singers...
...natural fit," says Gail Smith, marketing vice president for Chicago-based Kolcraft Enterprises, which licensed the Jeep name from parent company DaimlerChrysler. "They're geared to handle urban potholes," she notes. How about bumpy hills? "I don't know that you'd want to take a baby up a mountain in them...