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The Bruegel Legacy, Spelling Conceits Aside
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John Vinocur
International Herald Tribune
02-07-1998
Against all of today's flimmer and flicker, film clips, sound bites, web sites, information accelerated into a nonstop fast-forward loop of things half-seen and fully blurred, hold this journalism up: Pieter Bruegel and sons at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Only, of course, it is not journalism, a lesser labor. It is more genius embracing reportage, the mass and density and flood of characters of several great novels, the pulse and line of epic poetry, all slowed down, nonfleeting, and in color on the walls here. It is Bruegel, magnificence ...
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BAMIAN DINING FACILITY EMPLOYS AFGHAN WOMEN
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data
; 00-00-0000 BAMIAN, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2003 - A U...at the PRT dining facility here. The Bamian PRT civil affairs team first brought the...capacities, said Lt. Col. Mark T. Schnur, Bamian PRT commander with the Coalition Joint...
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Profile: Life in Bamian, Afghanistan, after routing of the Taliban
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Life in Bamian, Afghanistan, after routing of the Taliban...destroyed two giant statues of Buddha at Bamian in Afghanistan. They had been carved...and dated back to the seventh century. Bamian is hard to reach; it' s set in a broad...
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AT BAMIAN VILLAGE IN RIDGEWOOD
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 01-15-1993 AT BAMIAN VILLAGE IN RIDGEWOOD By CHARLES and JENNIFER...served at an Afghan restaurant called Bamian Village, on Chestnut Street in the heart...caravan route in the heart of Afghanistan. Bamian is famous for two gigantic statues of...
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Return to a Battered Homeland; Bamian's Survivors, and Emerging Bones, Testify to Taliban Violence
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; The bones of Bamian's dead are beginning to emerge from...Jan Ali, 18, whose family returned to Bamian three months ago. "There were two other...while others had emerged with the thaw. Bamian, an isolated and breathtakingly beautiful...
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Afghan Town Awaits Rebirth of Buddha Statues; Impoverished Bamian Needs Tourist Revenue
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...is slow in the central highland town of Bamian where the statues were chiseled more than...assembling giant jigsaw puzzles. The town of Bamian, so poor that dozens of its residents...statues," said Habiba Surabi, governor of Bamian province and Afghanistan's first woman...
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IRAN HELPS MODERNIZE AFGHANISTAN'S BAMIAN AIRPORT.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News
; ...that Iran has provided the central Afghan city of Bamian with weather-related instruments. Ghertanali...useful in facilitating the landing of planes in Bamian. Up until now, Bamian airport could not relay weather information to pilots...
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MEDCAP IMPROVES HEALTH CONDITIONS IN BAMIAN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...following news release: Officials in Bamian Province tended to health of fellow Afghans...coordination with Coalition forces and the Bamian Provincial Reconstruction Team. The purpose...occurred in Yakawlang District, in western Bamian Province. The next two visits were in...
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Y Not Try Bamian?; Carnivores and vegetarians find plenty to choose from at this Afghan kebab house
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; **1/2 Bamian 5634 Leesburg Pike (near Carlin Springs...person. No matter how you spell it, Bamian serves one of the best Afghan- style...out to be the only item on the menu at Bamian that I don't love. Now, about that...
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Farewell 2001: Buddhas of Bamian Damned and blasted
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...years later. But the giant buddhas of Bamian could not survive the Taliban. The rest...Road. Buddhism was already thriving in Bamian when Alexander the Great's Greek armies...1992 I spent five days trying to reach Bamian to see these ancient marvels only to be...
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URGENT Afghan Opposition Say They Control Bamian Province
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; The opposition Northern Alliance of Afghanistan Sunday claimed that they have taken control of Bamian province from the Taliban rulers, the Cable NewsNetwork (CNN) reported quoting Northern Alliance sources. So far, the claim...
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