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ISLAMABAD: The front line of Washington's pursuit of the East African embassy bombers appears to have moved to Pakistan, because of that country's proximity to Afghanistan and the base of "prime suspect" Osama Bin Laden. About 200 U.S. personnel were evacuated from Pakistan Tuesday in response to threats of retaliation following last week's arrest and deportation to Kenya of a potential suspect in the bombing. "With fingers pointing towards Bin Laden, it's expected that there may be retaliation against U.S. citizens and personnel as there has been on previous occasions in Pakistan," says TIME correspondent Hannah...
Highest on the U.S. list at the moment is Saudi renegade millionaire Osama bin Laden. Over the past year or so, he has issued a number of decrees, calling on all Muslim groups to attack U.S. facilities. Bin Laden is thought to be a major financier of terror groups and is the prime suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. While his declared goal is the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, bin Laden's bitterness toward the U.S. is just as strong. "All Muslims," he said last...
...happy to say Steinbrenner deserves almost no credit for such ruthless (and Mantle-less) efficiency. This team is the brainchild of now departed general manager Bob Watson and has been gracefully deployed by its manager, the modest Joe Torre. It's been assembled from a veritable spare-parts bin of players: Hideki Irabu from Japan, Cuban emigre Orlando Hernandez, a few from trades and the free-agent rolls. Perhaps most remarkable is the provenance of Jeter, Williams and starting pitcher Andy Pettitte: Each came from the once suspect Yankees farm system...
Those interviewed at the reception, however,said Rudenstine had not solicited them for money."In China, our standard of living has not reachedthe level that we can donate money to Harvard,"said Wu Bin, whose son graduated from HarvardCollege...
...insane. Yes, that is correct. I am crazy. Put me in the loony bin. Lock me up and keep me away from small children and Harvard students. I am working three jobs this summer. 70 hours a week...