Word: bergen
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...Dance with Iran In "Rethinking Iran," Samantha Power asserted that Washington "supported" Osama bin Laden during the 1980s [Jan. 28]. Power repeated a canard that has been pushed by numerous conspiracy theorists. As terrorism expert Peter Bergen has stated, this is a "folk myth" without a shred of evidence to support it. The 9/11 commission came to similar conclusions and noted that the CIA viewed bin Laden and his so-called Arab Afghans as "militarily insignificant" to the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that a distinguished scholar like Power decided to repeat this legend. James...
Harvard also beat out a cluster of coastal schools, including California and Florida State, in nabbing Dean Scaduto, a linebacker from Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell...
...deformed. The first part was true, but only because the vast majority of abortions occur in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, when this procedure would not even be a consideration. The latter was false, as reporters who went past the spin soon learned. Ruth Padawer of the Bergen Record found that in one New Jersey clinic alone, something like 1,500 of them were being performed every year...
...associate contemporary Scandinavian dining with cloudberries, minimalist tableware and breathtakingly expensive menus, you'll find the Pingvinen (Penguin) restaurant in Bergen, Norway, a refreshing departure from form. Tucked into a corner of Bergen's university district, the year-old gastropub trades on unpretentious local fare, done the way it used to be. "People come in here and eat my food and you can see they get nostalgic," says 38-year-old chef Alma Valle. "They want to talk about...
...There was nary a mention of the Democrats' historic victory or the Republicans' brutal thrashing, just the headline "Why the Center Is the New Place to Be." But the American people did not move to the political center; they strongly repudiated the hard right. James K. Power North Bergen, New Jersey...