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...military has struggled to affix responsibility for the Karbala murders. U.S. commanders have accused the Quds Force, a paramilitary organization run by members of Iran's security establishment, of being behind the operation. On July 2 in Baghdad, the military revealed it was holding Ali Musa Daqduq, a Lebanese national who was captured in Basra in March. He is a senior operative of Hizballah (the Lebanese Shi'ite militia supported by the Quds Force), and officials say he has admitted to involvement in the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ambush in Karbala | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

Earlier this year, my blockmates and I each received a plastic baggie of condoms, dental dams, and other socially progressive articles. Included in these baggies were “BGLT Safe Space” stickers, intended for students to affix to their doors in demarcation of an area into which, in apparent contrast with most Harvard spaces, a queer student could enter without risk of being attacked. One of my blockmates (all of them are heterosexual) quickly found an appropriate spot for the sticker: on the door of our oven...

Author: By Ben Kawaller | Title: The Era of PoHoMoPho | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...fine from Tennessee's Department of Revenue. The reason: failure to comply with the state's Unauthorized Substances Tax, which requires anyone in possession of a certain quantity of contraband - in the case of marijuana, more than 42.5 grams - to buy a tax stamp from the state government and affix it on the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Illegal Drugs Be Taxed? | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...Arthur, who seems to log quite a few hours in and around the studio. But otherwise, the young engineers must go it alone.Martinez and his group faced a formidable task: Recreate with man-made materials a vicious scorpion’s tail on a grander scale—and affix the giant hinged metal contraption atop a dune buggy. The result is something out of Real World/Road Rules Challenge, with the scorpion-tail dune buggy chasing around smaller dune buggies in the “kill zone” in an attempt to pop the large balloons attached...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Animal Planet | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...cute or, more likely, want to raise their social capital by boasting a four-digit number of associates—accepting them into your pantheon of friends is a gesture of kindness. However, facebook.com’s upcoming “feature” that allows you to affix “degrees of friendship” will rub into random persons’ proverbial faces that, in fact, they might not know you at all—ouch. That this new feature will serve to “out” those fraudulent friending-maniacs is unnecessarily harsh...

Author: By Morgan R. Grice and Adam M. Guren | Title: Point / Counterpoint: ‘We’re Facebook Acquaintances’ | 12/9/2005 | See Source »

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