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...Islamic fundamentalist parties with a history of links to terror groups were elected as part of a four-way electoral alliance led by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The accession of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote to power in Bangladesh rang alarm bells. Islamic Oikya Jote is open about its sympathies: it is well known for its support of Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The party's membership largely duplicates that of the HUJI, which was founded in 1992 by Bangladeshi mujahedin returning from Afghanistan with orders from bin Laden...
Although only one U.S. serviceman was killed, the implications of last Tuesday's attack on a Marine training exercise in Kuwait may have set alarm bells ringing as far away as Washington. It had all the markings of a well-planned suicide operation: Anas Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hajiri, 26, had traveled from their homes in Kuwait City to the uninhabited island of Failaka, 12 miles offshore. There they had stalked U.S. Marines participating in an urban warfare exercise code-named "Eager Mace," before jumping out of a white pickup truck and spraying the Americans with Kalashnikov rifle fire...
...most notable was Fallows, whose Atlantic Monthly article sounded alarm bells about the effect early decision had on already-disadvantaged students...
...Cabot is devoid of “cutie-pies,” so after an hour of drinking games and reunions with his Yard compatriots, Fisher moves on to a party in Winthrop hosted by “another buddy from St. Albans.” A false fire alarm brings everyone out onto the streets by 1 a.m., and since his upperclass friends decide to head out to a bar, it’s time for Fisher to call it a night...
When the University purchased the 30-acre Arsenal plot a year and a half ago, the community’s outcry was harsh—but its alarm was justified. Because Harvard is a tax-exempt institution, Watertown would have lost millions of dollars in revenue when the Arsenal site was removed from the city’s tax rolls. That revenue accounted for almost 5 percent of Watertown’s entire budget, money Watertown had been counting on for library and school renovations among other projects...