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Cardinals Win World Series; Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan; Qantas Flights Grounded

​The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 last night to win their 11th World Series. After letting up 2 runs in the first, the Cardinals scored 6 unanswered to take the series. They were down 2-3 in the Fall Classic after losing game 5 to the Rangers. David Freese was the World Serie ... More >>

This is Your Life? YouTube Crowdsourced Thingamamovie, Life in a Day

Love Is a Battlefield at the Human Rights Watch Film Fest

The Recipe of Coke, Revealed?; Chef's Tables Are All the Rage

​An Atlanta radio show host recently revealed what he claimed was the original formula for Coca-Cola, a recipe that includes coriander oil and citric acid. [NY Times] In Nigella Lawson's kitchen, mugs live in a drawer so as not to waste head space in cupboards, and pegs are custom built for s ... More >>

First Native U.S. Citizen Swine Flu Death; Pig, Handshakes Affected

We've been hoping to put this swine flu thing to rest, but events prevent it. The first native-born U.S. citizen has died from a suspected case -- not an immigrant like the little boy who was our first stateside death, but a 33-year-old teacher in Texas. She has been identified as Judy Trunnel (pic ... More >>

Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation

Who needs a bailout? The New York soldiers heading to Afghan War frontlines.

The frightening Taliban invasion of the Afghan capital Kabul, courtesy of Al Jazeera's Todd Baer. Compare the CNN and Al Jazeera stories. Bailout? If by accident of birth, you were in Kabul yesterday, you'd be dying to bail out. You would have been running for your life while crazed Taliban storm ... More >>

Good News (Bad News): Iraq War Money Runs Out. (More is on the Way.)

Good News (Bad News): Iraq War Money Runs Out. (More is on the Way.)

Beyond Belief

Earnest, moving, not that interesting

Grounded: The Kite Runner Just Won't Fly

Still, controversy notwithstanding

Battlefield Earth

New films from Britain and Sri Lanka illuminate the consequences of war

Progressive Scan

In fragments and on the edge, the HRWIFF remains New York's most vital fest

Kabul Homebodies

The first Afghan theater company to perform in the States

Horoscope

Sweet Home Taliban

Pose traumatic stress syndrome: The drag of being a young girl in Afghanistan in drag

Chivalry vs. Complicity

America's compassionate motives aren't enough to save Afghanistan's women

My Goal Or Your Goal? Documenting the Biased Docmaker

The Truths About Charlie

Material Witnesses

Nation

Blow Up

Kabul Cheese Steak

Unholy Wars

The French Connection

Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer

Horoscope

How We Lost Afghanistan

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

The Afghan Road Show

Globe-Trotting Declan Donnellan Directs Tony Kushner's 'Homebody/Kabul'

Taliban Family Values

Vice Steps Out of the Closet in Afghanistan

A Place at the Table

Afghan Women Debate Their Future

Fight Songs

Al Qaeda Duped?

Nuke Manual Looks Like Internet Hoax

Return of the 'Good Warlord'

Ismail Khan Seeks Power in the New Afghanistan

Taliban Killed the Radio Stars

In Afghanistan, Any Battle Over Music Is a Battle Over National Identity

The Mayor of Little Afghanistan

A Local Face in the Effort to Form an Interim Government in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Sentimental King

Zahir Shah Speaks on the Next Afghanistan

Northern Alliance Massacres

U.S.-Backed Rebels Accused of Wholesale Slaughter as Taliban Retreat

Blood on the Tracks

U.S. Allies in Afghanistan Left Trail of Atrocities

Nation

The Birds Are on Fire

How Should Theater Respond to September 11?

Afghan Plan Unravels

Northern Alliance Tells U.S. to Butt Out

After the Taliban

Could a Coalition Government Withstand Afghan Rivalries?

Accidents Can Happen

Dead Civilians and Other Minor Risks of War

Our Fragile Ally

Pakistan Teeters on Edge of Civil War

America's Battle Plans

War Report

Houses Divided

Two Afghan Mosques in Flushing Worry in Attack Aftermath

The Accidental Operative

Richard Helms’s Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps