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In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.

Peter Bergen

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I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

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My audition for 'Dhoom Machale Dhoom' was the turning point of my life.

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Media wants to know everything. We are in this industry: we have to get used to it; we are still getting used to it. So I have no complaints. They are doing their job.

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I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

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It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

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'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

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If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

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