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...dyed-in-the-wool Red Sox fan, the other a Bronx bomber since birth; when it comes to Major League Baseball, we don’t agree on much. During the postseason, metaphorical fists fly as we gloat over our respective teams’ accomplishments and argue over who is the more valuable player: Mike Lowell or Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle or Teddy Ballgame. But there is one thing we can agree on; we both nominate Manny Ramirez and Jonathan Papelbon for 2008 Class Day Speakers...
...death toll is rising along with the political temperature. A bomber had struck on Tuesday as well, this time a stone's throw away from Musharraf's residence in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, where a police post was attacked, leaving seven dead. And this week's casualties pushed beyond 700 the total number killed since the summer in violence related to extremism. At least two dozen attacks have directly targeted the military, prompting it to issue orders for officers to avoid wearing their uniforms in public or traveling in vehicles bearing military number plates. Though no group has claimed...
...Sinaa industrial district in southeast Fallujah was once al-Qaeda's hive and bomb-making base in the city. And for Marine Capt. Sean Miller, a suicide bomber's vest found there a few days ago symbolizes the dilemma at the heart of U.S. thinking about leaving Iraq...
...former Prime Minister was rocked by the explosions, which intelligence reports are saying were caused by explosive-laden vehicles parked on the side of the road, about 30 meters away from Bhutto's party. An unconfirmed report said that the first explosion may have been caused by a suicide bomber. Members of Bhutto's entourage escaped with minor injuries, but the crowds lining the path took the full brunt of the blasts. Party members on the truck describe a scene of mayhem and carnage. Body parts and human flesh were scattered across a large radius and a few human torsos...
...That distressing reality was further underscored by the Bali attacks, which, while having much less of an effect than 9/11, removed any doubt about the nature of the war we were entering. The first Bali suicide bomber blew himself up in a nightclub filled with foreigners on vacation. A second suicide bomber outside the nightclub blew himself up in a van. The intent was to kill as many people as possible. It not only didn't matter to al-Qaeda that it was killing civilians, but it also didn't matter that many of the victims were Muslim Indonesians...