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* The final result of the vote in Afghanistan won't be known for some time, though it looks as if Hamid Karzai has beaten off 16 contenders and will be elected president by a good majority. The holding of this election is astonishing. Democracy has arrived in a country where the concept itself has always been unknown, and people have habitually defined themselves according to ethnicity, tribe, and religion. The Taliban was expected to paralyze the election with violence. The warlords were supposed to intimidate voters. Women, it was feared, wouldn't dare leave home. All the grim predictions were wrong. The ...