Word: assistive
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...provided a safe haven for al-Qaeda--which had its origins among those who had gone to the region to fight Soviet forces. Pakistani government support for the Taliban officially ended after 9/11, when Pervez Musharraf, an army general who had seized power in a 1999 coup, pledged to assist the U.S. war on terrorism. But not everyone was on board. Some in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) played a double game, turning a blind eye when members of the Taliban leadership and al-Qaeda escaped to Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border...
...Hampshire held on for the win. Jafar, who scored two goals for the third time in her career, put the Crimson on top early in the first half. Keating found Jafar at the top of the circle where the senior fired a shot past Wildcats goalkeeper Jenna Lehman. The assist marked Keating’s second straight game with a point. The lead lasted into the second half until New Hampshire back Brittany Jacobs tied the score at one. The Wildcats added two more goals within 14 minutes and extended the lead to 3-1. Harvard answered on Jafar?...
Fucito was able to put one into the back of the net at 34:48 in the first half when he converted an assist from senior Michael Giammanco on a play that started with a free kick...
...fantasia of rural righteousness - updated in a crucial way: now Mom works too. Palin's story stands with one foot squarely in the nostalgia for small-town America and the other in the new middle-class reality. She brings home the bacon, raises the kids - with a significant assist from Mr. Mom - hunts moose and looks great in the process. I can't imagine a more powerful, or current, American Dream...
...that was supposed to be focused on thumping Barack Obama over the head. And it may have raised questions about McCain's own judgment and seriousness. But, as we have been told ad nauseam since the surprise choice was announced last Friday, Palin has already provided one unquestionable, invaluable assist to the Republican campaign: with one sweep of her perfectly manicured hand, she has supposedly erased McCain's Evangelical problem and united the base that proved so key to George W. Bush's victory in 2004. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...