Many Afghans had been awaiting Barack Obama’s announcement of a troop drawdown with a mixture of dread and happiness. In Kabul, the big surprise was not the announcement that U.S.
Afghanistan Reacts to Obama: 10,000? Why So Much So Fast?
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Negligent Homicide: The Case of the Sweat Lodge Guru
It was one of the more unusual crime scenes in American history. The slumping, tarpaulin-covered sweat lodge had disgorged dozens of victims onto the red dirt near Sedona, Arizona
Yemen’s Dilemma: Caught Between Saleh and Al-Qaeda
Fireworks lit up the skies of the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on Tuesday night as Yemeni government officials claimed that President Ali Abdullah Saleh, recovering from wounds he sustained in an attack on his palace earlier this month, would be returning to the Yemeni capital on Friday, June 24. The president’s supporters made a raucous display of their joy by shooting barrages of AK-47 rounds into the air, similar to their display of support when news of his successful surgery reached the capital
South Africa: Dispensing with Judges
In 1960 chocolate-skinned Robert Sobukwe, 38, head of the black nationalist Pan-African Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for “incitement to riot.” As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, even after their sentences have expired
Turkey: The Banished American
The most popular foreign resident in the tiny Turkish port of Kusadasi is a lean, blond, blue-eyed American known locally as Kemal Baldwin. Kids follow him through the streets, and adults come to him for solution of all kinds of problems
The Crusaders of Meth: Mexico’s Deadly Knights Templar
At first, the amateur video shows a normal evening in the seething valley town of Apatzingn, in Mexico’s western Michoacn state.
Audi’s New A7: A Sports Car for the Internet Era
When it comes to automobiles, my tastes have always been embarrassingly mundane.
Obama’s Libya War Challenge: Limit U.S. Military Mission
Call it the Goldilocks military plan: Not too much, not too little, not too unilateral, not too American.
Danger from Melting Snow: California’s Rivers Go Wild
When Marcia Rasmussen set out for a spring run on the trails of Sequoia National Park last week, it felt like just another season of backcountry training. But it hadn’t been just another winter
The White House: Someone’s in the Kitchen
An invitation to dinner at the French embassy in London is the dream of any true gourmet.