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...rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed with genuine animal hair in the back of his vintage Ford pick-up (stick shift, ladies, not automatic) and drive you to a remote hilltop were you’ll feast on wild berries and jicama...
...Arafat himself. The latter move, of course, is coming more from his own left flank, where some legislators, activists and intellectuals such as human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti have launched a campaign to strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, has ruffled feathers by publicly urging his countrymen to drop the demand for the right of return...
Except that the games count. Jordan doesn't want to--and can't--score 30 points every contest, and he has been trying to shift the load to emerging players, such as swingman Richard Hamilton and center Brendan Haywood. And Collins steals minutes of rest for Jordan whenever possible. He sat out the last quarter of a blowout loss to Milwaukee last weekend--"saving the legs," he said. On the floor, Jordan's understanding of the game is unparalleled. "I think great athletes have some special quality, where their minds function entirely differently," says Collins. "They see the game almost...
...therefore heretics to the Taliban. Hazara leaders say the Taliban wanted to exterminate them, and the devastation of the valley lends credence to their claims. But the few Taliban left in the valley, bedraggled prisoners you can see being escorted down the village's main street, were anxious to shift the blame. The Hazara's troubles and the destruction of the Buddhas were the work of Pakistanis and Arabs, the foreign jihadis, says one prisoner, Nisar Ahmad. "It was a very,very bad idea," he says. "We are very sad." The war may be over, but the destruction wrought...
...Today's violence is increasingly assuming a pattern of a war of attrition, waged by shadowy armed guerrilla groups who mount guerrilla and terrorist attacks both in the West Bank and Gaza and inside Israel itself. One notable effect of the shift not lost on Israelis is the fact that this has begun to equalize the casualty count between the two sides, compared with the early days of the current uprising in which Palestinian deaths outnumbered Israelis' by five-to-one or more. Palestinian militants have begun to adopt the strategies that Hezbollah used to drive Israel out of Lebanon...