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Ravaged course, soaring cause

Mass. native holds benefit golf tourney in Afghanistan

By Russell Nichols
Globe Staff / August 11, 2006

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Cupped in a rugged desert of rolling hills once peppered with mines, now grazed by goats, the nine-hole Kabul Golf Club still bears the wounds of war. It's a dusty expanse of bomb craters, rocks, and tumbleweed. Rusting tanks perch on the surrounding hills. (Full article: 643 words)

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