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...time, no doubt, the Tigers' bubble will burst, as all their other streaks have ended. The Giants, owned by the same company that dominates the country's radio and television networks and owns its largest newspaper, will reassert their place atop the tribal hierarchy. The plangent sounds of "When the Wind Blows from Mount Rokko," the Tigers' fight-song, will recede from the department stores. Order will restore itself as it always does after Carnival and Saturnalia (especially in tradition-loving Japan). But by then something may have been achieved that could change the hearts of a country always ready...
...Pakistani border town of Chaman told TIME. Furthermore, a Taliban logistics officer tells TIME that the Taliban has established cells inside Afghanistan to carry out smaller-scale attacks, distribute propaganda and burn down schools. Afghan leaders want Pakistan to crack down on blatant Taliban activity in its tribal areas. U.S. officials may consider the war over, but the Taliban's jihad...
...however, that many of those doing the fighting are neither Baathists nor al-Qaeda, but are instead a broad group of mostly Sunni Iraqi nationalists taking guidance from militant Sunni clerics. Some are drawn into cell structures under the command of former security and intelligence officers; others operate through tribal and clan networks. Their motivations range from a religious-inflected nationalism resentful at the indignity of occupation - and fearful of the loss of Sunni privilege that had been guaranteed by the Baathists - to the tribal politics of vengeance. And the mounting anger among ordinary Iraqis at the failure...
Then I called my dad and told him I got a tattoo, a “tribal band” around my upper right arm, exactly the kind of thing he really, really hates. He told me I was dead when I got home and hung...
WHALE RIDER. The Whangara people of New Zealand search for a new tribal leader to follow in the legacy of their ancestor Paikea, who was once saved from drowning by riding on the back of a whale. The would-be heir to the title of chief dies during birth, while his twin sister, Pai, survives. A natural leader, Pai grows up striving to overcome the odds of gender oppression in her tribe and engages in a quest for the title of chief. The performance is moving and well acted, although meanings of some tribal references are lost on Western audiences...