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Crime levels at Harvard remained largely steady last year overall, although the campus registered increases in sexual assault and robbery charges, according to statistics released yesterday...
...Alliance commanders had been discussing surrender terms all week with senior Taliban commanders from Kunduz. The Alliance had given the Taliban forces until Thursday morning to surrender or face a frontal assault, but Dostum's cease-fire announcement appeared to have averted a bloodbath. Hours later, however, the guns were blazing and Alliance tanks were driving towards the city. Initially, the Taliban commanders had sought safe passage for the foreign fighters to Pakistan, but the U.S. was having none of a deal that might allow Al Qaeda fighters to escape...
...Despite bloodcurdling threats, Northern Alliance commanders had been somewhat reluctant to launch the promised frontal assault - Thursday's deadline was the third "final" ultimatum for the Taliban to surrender. But despite the fact that the Alliance has swept into Kabul and liberated half of the country, there hasn't, in fact, been a single pitched battle in this war. The Taliban's sequential withdrawals have for the most part spared the Alliance from having to fight street-to-street for control over any city. And the fundamentalist movement's demise has come about in large part because many...
...rebels as a proxy ground force. For the first time, the Pentagon last week acknowledged that the U.S. has air-dropped guns and horse feed to Alliance forces. Meanwhile, U.S. Green Berets slipped into rebel-held territory and worked to prepare the Alliance's factions for a coordinated assault on Mazar. "Obviously, we needed help," said General Muhibullah, a senior commander in Dasht-i-Qaleh. "It was very effective for us when the U.S. advisers came to Mazar...
...Harvard College has changed its policies to allow a single fact-finder to conduct investigations in certain student disputes. According to Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery ’87, the fact-finder may be assigned to sensitive cases, like those of rape and sexual assault, and would replace the three-to-four person subcommittees that have handled the collection of evidence in the past...