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...member of the majority Pashtuns, should remain the top priority for U.S. forces; but the military is preparing to take special-ops troops off Karzai's security detail and turn the task over to a private U.S. security firm. At the same time, the fledgling U.S. effort to arm and train a multiethnic army that reports to Karzai has started to irritate leaders of the Northern Alliance, who view the new force as a potential threat to their hard-won power...
...themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble, who negotiated the Belfast agreement for the unionists, was planning...
Despite their wild transatlantic popularity, the Strokes continue to uphold their curious anti-image: An unwashed Casablancas rambles incoherently onstage (“This is my buddy,” he said with his arm around the aforementioned giraffe. “I do whatever he tells me.”), the band kibbitzes around beer and cigarettes in their videos. But not only are they regular guys from a spectator’s distance, the Strokes’ appearance at the Lampoon last Wednesday proved them to be surprisingly accessible: The band members took time to chat and pose...
...head was, ‘This dude messed with the wrong cowboy,’” Blewett recalled. “When he was sitting at his typewriter, I bet he had no idea he was messing with a guy who hasn’t lost an arm-wrestling match since the fall of fourth grade...
Bread, circuses, Dunster. This week FM puts Harvard students through tests of mind and body, from a former “Jeopardy!” contestant arm-wrestling a former “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” contestant to a varsity placekicker totally destroying his sports-columnist antagonist in a field goal contest; from two guys in Quincy playing Scrabble to three guys in Dunster playing a game which uses Scrabble tiles. Satiate your lust for blood and wordplay with: The Games Harvard Plays...