“Run we did, huffing and puffing under helmets and heavy body armor, a group of over-aged pretend soldiers—actually, just reporters—trying to understand a war that barely seems to exist most of the time. Until all of a sudden it does, rocketing in from nowhere.”
Michael Hirsh’s latest dispact from Afghanistan. Hirsh is on the ground from May 5 to 11, reporting on the beginning of the end of U.S. presence. Read the coverage here.
Abbottabad: One Year After Osama bin Laden’s Assassination
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Cars are parked for export at a port in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo. Japan’s industrial production rose 1 percent in March from February, led by output of automobiles, notebook computers, and communications equipment. Cars account for 24 percent of total Japanese exports to the United States. PHOTO: AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
