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Parlika, 57, headed the Afghan Red Crescent before the mujahedin took over Kabul in 1992. She has emerged as the leader of a small but growing underground women's movement. She had initially planned on Tuesday to lead a march of unveiled women to the U.N. compound in Kabul to demand that women be included in any future government, but the police told her they could not guarantee security--even in post-Taliban Kabul...
...written by aficionados and posted on the Internet. A curiously large proportion of the stories are in what is called the "slash" category, describing Harry's heretofore unpublicized gay liaisons in stories such as Night of the Round Table. Harry is one of the most popular protagonists in this underground literary form, although he's not alone. (Others include Don Quixote, Ben Hur, Nero Wolfe and, less imaginatively, Frank and Joe Hardy.) Warner Bros. has no plans to include this new side of Harry in its sequels. (Although the Batman franchise could use some fresh character issues.) The whole concept...
...their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...
With the Taliban on the run, the war is turning underground, to the network of tunnels and caves where Osama bin Laden and his men are taking cover. See TIME.com for an interactive graphic detailing the layout of a typical Taliban hideout--and how the U.S. will attack...
...best parts of Zoolander, though absurd, ring very true indeed. All too often, for example, fashion shows are held in dilapidated buildings or abandoned warehouses. In Zoolander, a show is held underground and the audience must enter by descending stairs under a subway grate. Also, Zoolander lives with three other male models, and in reality models do usually live together. That?s not because they?re gay - male models are no more likely to be gay than non-models - but because agencies set them up in shared flats...