41.   He believed passionately that people should participate in the arts, his brother said.

42.   He moved from village to village and slept each night in a different house, his brother said.

43.   He has always denied throwing the firecracker, his brother said.

44.   He never saw it coming, said his brother, Jack Gescheidt.

45.   He said he had no idea why his brother would say that he had.

46.   He soon reversed himself in what the brothers said was just the sort of artful politics Afghanistan has long needed.

47.   He was recently laid off from his job as an electronic technician, and was free-lancing to make ends meet, his brother said.

48.   Her brother said it was an act of despair.

49.   Her brother said she had a romantic relationship with one of the rebels killed inside the compound, but denied press reports that she may have been pregnant.

50.   Her brother said she spent about five days in jail.