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...recent days a number of names - actually, noms de guerre - have surfaced as potentially rising stars. (Al-Qaeda in Iraq constantly changes its commanders - and switches their names - for security reasons and to throw the U.S. off track.) Whether any of these personalities will attain Zarqawi's superstar-jihadi status remains to be seen. But TIME spoke with Abu Bara, an insurgent commander in Zarqawi's organization, and came up with these assessments of the most prominent commanders...
...Senior Standing, or bluffing our way through yet another hand of Texas hold ’em. But in the future, we’ll be pressured to channel our conceptual energies into specific and limited applications, compartmentalizing what and when we are allowed to learn. Even if we attain intellectually fulfilling careers, we will still have to contend with the unavoidable peril of adult life: that is, of thinking becoming a mere chore that we’ll want to avoid whenever we aren’t made...
...bylaws to allow their public events’ to be funded. When legislation that would allow events-based funding for these groups came before the Council in April, the legislation was hotly—and chaotically—debated over several meetings.Several days after the legislation failed to attain what was thought to be a required two-thirds majority, the UC discovered that in fact only a simple majority ought to have been required. At the UC’s next meeting, the legislation was deemed to have passed. The ultimate outcome compromised the UC’s strong stance...
...medal on Sunday.“We’ve made a lot of good progress in practice,” Martin said. “We finally have a boat that we know has great speed, and with the speed we have, we definitely have a shot to attain a medal.”While the heavyweights are on the outside looking in, the Radcliffe lightweight crew has been at the top almost the entire season. But after a loss to Princeton two weeks ago followed by a slide to a No. 2 ranking, the Black and White finds...
...Most reservations are comparable to third-world countries,” she said. “Taking steps like this will add to the viability of these communities to raise children who will persevere and attain equal opportunities to other people...