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1. Taliban
   Assisting with the CentGas negotiations with the Taliban was Laili Helms, the niece-in-law of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Laili Helms... a relative of King Zahir Shah, was the Taliban's unofficial envoy to the United States and arranged for various Taliban officials to visit the United States. Laili Helms' base of operations was in her home in Jersey City on the Hudson River. Ironically, most of her work on behalf of the Taliban was practically conducted in the shadows of the World Trade Center, just across the river.
2. Taliban -- Countries
   Taliban insurgents are maintaining strong opposition to NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. The last two years have seen the worst fighting in the country since coalition troops ousted the Taliban in 2001 with some 4,000 people believed to have been killed - about a quarter of them civilians. Public discontent in Afghanistan is growing over the rising number of civilian casualties and the government's failure to improve the lives of most Afghans.
3. Ellen Degeneres -- Emmy Awards
   Reba recently appeared on the "Today" show, "The View" and the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" in support of the album and The WB Series. Look for her on the "Kennedy Center Honors" on Dec 26th and as a presenter during the "People's Choice Awards," January 13th.
4. Osama Bin Laden -- Training
   CIA analysts verified the recording as bin Laden's voice. They offered no details about how they reached that conclusion, but in the past the agency has verified authenticity in part by comparing new recordings to earlier messages.
5. Manisha Koirala -- Films
   Ms. Manisha Koirala will talk about her new film “Escape from Taliban.” It is a true story based on a three volume best seller entitled Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife by Sushmita Banerjee. This is the story of an Indian woman who marries an Afghan man and gets caught in the middle of the Taliban’s increasing oppression of women. Afghan women help her to escape, at great risk to themselves.
6. Bollywood -- Indian English
   Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema, even though "Hindustani", understood as the colloquial base common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. Bollywood consists of the languages of Hindi, Urdu and English. The use of poetic Urdu words is fairly common. Some Bollywood films such as Mughal-E-Azam are entirely in Urdu. There has been a growing presence of Indian English in dialogue and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see films that feature dialogue with English words and phrases, even whole sentences.
7. Afghan History -- Afghanistan Unveiled
   Nineteenth century Afghan history was in large measure a struggle to retain independence in the face of expanding Russian and British empires (hence the incredibly bloody Anglo-Afghan wars, and Abdurrahman Khan's conquests to the north). The replacement of the Romanovs by the Bolsheviks did little to change this. Neither did the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, since it coincided with the beginning of the Cold War. At this point Afghanistan really did find itself between the devil and sea. It badly needed development aid, which the Soviets were much more willing to give than the Americans, in large part because Afghanistan had a long-standing and often-acrimonious dispute over its southern border, first with British India and then with Pakistan, the regional American client-state. The result was much more Soviet influence than the leaders of the monarchial period, or indeed most Afghans who thought about the matter, really liked, an influence the Soviets naturally did what they could to increase.
8. Clay Aiken -- North Carolina
   Clay Aiken was born November 30, 1978 in Raleigh, NC, which is proud to call him their own. He graduated from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte with a Special Education degree in December 2003. 
9. Richard Gere -- New York
   Richard Gere attended college on a gymnastics scholarship, studying philosophy and drama for three years before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. He started on stage with the Seattle Repertory Theatre and New York's Provincetown Playhouse. On Broadway, Gere understudied the lead in the original Broadway production of Grease (Barry Bostwick starred), and Gere took the lead when the play went to London.
10. The Chieftains
    The Chieftains is an Irish musical group founded in 1962, known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music. The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sin�ad O'Connor, James Galway, and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won an Academy Award for Women of Ireland from Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.

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