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...explosives did not belong to Reid. In the wake of that aborted attack, Reid was identified by detained veterans of al-Qaeda's Afghan training centers as having attended the Khalden camp, which catered to European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker," and "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. That Khalden nurtured European jihad recruits was no accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According...
...case, Dartboard is most surprised by the school’s negative attitude towards the word gay. When did gay become a “bad” word? In its pre-20th century form gay often meant happy and gleeful. And today, gay is an acceptable adjective for homosexual persons. Take conversations from Dartboard’s own experiences. While aggressively fishing for hot guys a few days ago, Dartboard approached one saying, “Damn, Dartboard would like to get to know you better, if you know what Dartboard means...
...annals of 20th-century journalism, few names are more ignominious than Walter Duranty. The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent during the 1920s and 1930s, Duranty was by all accounts a liar, a recycler of propaganda and a willful apologist for one of history’s bloodiest tyrants, Joseph Stalin...
James sat quietly, knowing that his father, who controls not only BSkyB but also the 20th Century Fox movie studio, Fox television networks and newspapers around the world, would quash any dissent. But BSkyB shareholders may want to stick around to see how the show plays out. After a mediocre early business career--he started a rap-music label and lost News Corp. money in a bad Internet play--James proved himself at the company's Star TV. A karate enthusiast, he transformed the lossmaking Asian satellite broadcaster into the largest private TV player in India and penetrated the booming...
...rapid-fire trio of student suicides at New York University this fall has focused attention on the problem. On Sept. 12, a day after celebrating his 20th birthday, Jack Skolnik of Evanston, Illinois, leaped to his death from the 10th-floor inner balcony of the campus library...