10 Apr, 2012
In order to make the Taliban what they are, they had to be taken away as small boys not only from their parents (if they had them; many were orphans) but from daily village life and from the influence of women, according to an archival history of the...
10 Apr, 2012
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering;...
10 Apr, 2012
I have often argued that the rich nations of the world have not done nearly enough to share their wealth with those who have less. It should have been possible, over the past decade, to make much greater inroads in the number of people living in absolute poverty The...
10 Apr, 2012
People everywhere have been appalled by the tragedy in New York and Washington and have joined together in sympathy for the bereaved and in condemnation of the perpetrators. The terrorists went to their deaths convinced of instant entry into Paradise. There...
10 Apr, 2012
Saturday September 15, 2001 A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane’s exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in...
