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A man prepares popcorn in the Old Town of Murad Khane. Kabul, Afghanistan. 25 December 2009...I always saw this photograph as a double metaphor: first of the Afghans' great ability to appropriate foreign things, and, second, of the agitation this small, landlocked country stirs up in the great powers' faraway capitals.. (KEYSTONE/VII Photo/Daniel Schwartz)