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The Taliban, who've earned a reputation as the new Khmer Rouge by stoning adulterers to death and denying medical care to women, aren't the most subtle guys in the world--heavily armed goons have set up checkpoints along the main highway between Kashmir and China and now occupy between a third and half of Kashmir on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control; the only thing saving Cole and me from a night as the star attraction at the Talidrome was our bus's own heavily armed guard.
But in an editorial it deplored the fact that "whether it is enlisting the services of goons ...
Sent goons over to beat the hell out of Charles Schulz.
) I hope none of those goons we talked about earlier show up.
I figured you'd had some bad experience--maybe some Gephardt goons did a number on you--and didn't want to talk about it.