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...heated last week, at least partly because reports were so wildly uneven. Case in point: bin Laden's declaration about having the Bomb lost something on its way to print in Pakistan but could be found in the translation. In the English-language daily Dawn, readers got the full blast: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu, an official language of Pakistan and edited by Hamid...
...uniting the Pashtun on any side will not be an easy task. Afghan vendettas date back centuries. Not only do the Pashtun tribes despise the ethnic minorities of the Northern Alliance, but they often blast away at one another too. Feuds drag on for generations, with every man called upon to defend his tribe's honor. The Pashtun unite briefly when an outsider swaggers in, such as Alexander the Great, the Soviets and now the Americans. Left to themselves, they plant land mines to settle a property dispute. A youth from Peshawar was recently celebrated in the newspapers...
...this high-speed digital age, Harvard facilities might be expected to be in line with the latest technology. Not so. The New Quincy elevator provides some students with a daily blast from the past. The elevator was installed in 1959 upon New Quincys construction and in the past 42 years has undergone no substantive changes. Now, according to Mark E. Lee 01, the Quincy House Committee Chair, the age of the elevator is showing through. Since October, Quincy students have been trapped in the elevator on two separate occasions. Now a telephone has been installed in the elevator so that...
...remained a 3-1 Catamount lead until Vermont again went on the power play midway through the third. Oriel McHugh's blast from the point beat Harvard goaltender Will Crothers with 8:17 to play...
...presence of beer is not an extraordinary thing,” he said in an interview before the event. “I’ll be there. The senior tutor will be there. This is not going to be a beer blast...