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...interim supreme council headed by the former monarch. Under Gailani's plan, after the Taliban fell, a council chaired by the King would assume power, backed by a U.N. security force from Muslim countries. The council would call a loya jirga, the traditional representative political gathering, to write a constitution acceptable to all ethnic groups within the framework of Islamic law. Speaker after speaker embraced the proposal and vowed unity. But the airy talk could not paper over the rifts and disagreements that make putting together a new government so hard...
ROMESH RATNESAR got back from 18 months in London writing for TIME's international edition just in time to write last week's cover story on the ground war. He has combat duty again this week, writing on the battle in Afghanistan and the strategy to snare bin Laden. Talk to him Wednesday...
...would be too easy to write off Canada as just another country jealous of the United States. Tempting, though, isn’t it? The distant northern land has tended—by necessity—to follow suit when the U.S. takes a stance on foreign affairs. Economically it acknowledges its near-total dependence on US markets. And in a famous survey a few years ago, residents chose Pamela Anderson as their country’s most distinguished citizen. None of these bodes well for Canadians’ sense of self-determination, not to mention their self-esteem...
Carl explains, “We based the musical on the red books, the Class Reports, and the discrepancy between the image that’s put forth and the reality. People write in saying impressive things, like they’ve been promoted at work or that they’ve just bought a Burgundian vineyard, when in reality, their marriage is on the rocks and they’ve been going through some tough times...
...Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline. Carl noted, “This musical is about all the things you can’t learn while at Harvard–we certainly couldn’t have written it at your age...We didn’t want to write about Vietnam, women’s liberation, or any of the other major things–we wanted to write about friendship and how it lasts.” Kline added, “It’s about being realistic but hopeful: our classmates have survived illnesses, death...