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...Islamic law. Women were instructed to wear all-enveloping burqas and men to grow their beards. Music and television were banned. Then the jihadists really got serious. These days, dawn is often accompanied by the wailing of women as another beheaded corpse is found by the side of the road, a note pinned to the chest claiming that the victim was a spy for either the Americans or the Pakistani government. Beheadings are recorded and sold on DVD in the area's bazaars. "It's the knife that terrifies me," says Hafizullah, 40, a local arms smith. "Before they kill...
Make sure you can afford it. Think twice before lending money you are counting on having down the road. A ruined relationship is bad; a ruined nest egg is a disaster. If you can afford to lose the money, consider making it a gift from the start...
...Uyana is near some of the richest architectural treasures in the world. Just up the road is Sigiriya, the extraordinary rock fortress built in the 5th century, and widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world. The ruined capitals of Anuradhapura, founded in the 4th century B.C., and 900-year-old Polonnaruwa are a shortish drive away, and so are the cave temples at Dambulla, which date from the 1st century B.C. They're so amazing - and so amazingly well preserved - that you could stay in a hut and be happy. But how much better to return, after...
...With such a young team, they’ll be looking to the seniors and us in general to show them exactly how it’s done,” Brown says. “There are going to be bumps in the road. They’ll just be looking to us for our reaction and how we handle that...
...bumps in the road for Harvard could come as a result of its small roster, a problem that it dealt with last year as well. The Crimson only has 16 players in uniform...