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Well done Martha Raddatz at ABC. It is some achievement to file a story that shoehorns a Soviet collective farm, the Rotary Club of La Jolla and Osama bin Laden's polygamous lifestyle into a single narrative.
She was filing the second part of her Where Things Stand feature on Afghanistan. Monday Raddatz reported on the ABC-BBC-ARD opinion poll that found mounting pessimism and insecurity. Now she monitors the international aid effort to improve education. She introduced us to the "improbably named" La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club School, student body 3,800, staffed by Dr Dave Warner of San Diego, a self-styled member of the nerd surge. As improbable as the name might be, its location near Jalalabad was just as striking. Across the street is the bombed out ruins of Najin al-Jihad, a onetime Soviet collective. Until 1996 the Star of the Holy War had been bin Laden's home: "He lived there with three of his wives."
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