The Talib looked as ragged as his outpost, a trailer banked on a snowy mountain pass. Holes were bored into its sides to ventilate a sputtering wood stove. Upon seeing foreigners, the Talib, with an unkempt beard and layers of ill-fitting sweaters,
The first thing I did after starting to cover the presidency of Jimmy Carter for The Times was to read his campaign autobiography, “Why Not the Best?” Published in 1976 when he was an unknown former governor of Georgia, it opened with a quotation fr
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