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  • Garage floors are speckled with glitter. Paint and paper mache are drying. Callused fingers are furiously sewing. Outsiders think they know what Mardi Gras is all about: a drunken revelry of beads and nudity. But the preparations under way across the city in the run-up to Mardi Gras as people create costumes, floats and throws pint to what people here say is the real Mardi Gras: a wildly creative time that celebrates the city’s rich history. These are some of the people who transform themselves and the city for a few days.
  • The Marines have been unable to get control of the Marjah District in Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency is thriving with support from Pakistan and revenues from opium trade in the region.
  • First published in Al Jazeera Magazine. Press photographers go to great lengths and brave great dangers to be first at the scene of a bombing or shooting.
  • Three soldiers and their wives talk about maintaining a family and a marriage at the conclusion of the war in Iraq.
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