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...further embarrassed last week by revelations that the Wall Street Journal reporter's abduction might have been prevented. It turns out the U.S. requested the detention of the prime suspect, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, twice between Sept. 11 and the day Pearl was kidnapped, in each case to no avail. So when President Bush and his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, suggested last Monday that the U.S. wanted Saeed, they touched a handful of raw nerves in Pakistan. By midweek, Fleischer was toning down his rhetoric and indicating that some sort of understanding would be reached...
Stevens grabbed the rebound on Pejlto’s missed shot and brought the ball down for a final attempt. Ossai got a layup off, but to no avail, as the buzzer sounded and Harvard got away with...
...about what we’re doing next year, we’re burnt out by classes and we hate the Core more vehemently than ever. We try to distract ourselves by coordinating elaborate Spring Break trips and even starting new relationships, but it’s to no avail because a lot of us, tragically, are writing theses...
Osama bin Laden is not the first villain to be the target of a U.S. military manhunt. In 1916 bandit turned war hero PANCHO VILLA made a deadly raid on Columbus, N.M., and a U.S. military force was sent to track him down, to no avail. Seven years later, Villa was killed by Mexican assassins outside his ranch. TIME noted the death in an issue with a cover story on actress Eleonora Duse...
...Jones, pulled out a zone defense similar to the one Harvard had used earlier and put the ball in the hands of his two freshmen guards, Edwin Draughan and Alex Gamboa. The zone befuddled a Crimson offense that tried to dribble into it or shoot over it, to no avail...