that encourages India, Iran, Russia, China and Tajikistan–all of which oppose a Taliban takeover–to play a more active role in shaping Afghanistan’s economic and political future and in setting the terms for a gradual US-NATO withdrawal.

Robert Dreyfuss

Selig S. Harrison Selig S. Harrison is the author, with Diego Cordovez, of Out of
Afghanistan and author of In Afghanistan's Shadow. He is the
director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and
a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars.parlor game, the first of at least nine.

—Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, describing the horse’s popularity in 1940

The Belmont Stakes, ultimately viewed by more than 50 million people during the live telecast and on countless news accounts of it that evening, had made Secretariat the most celebrated and popular racehorse of all time. He became a client of the William Morris Agency, joining all the other sex symbols of the era.

—William Nack, Secretariat, describing the horse’s popularity in 1973

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