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...regroup by linking up with Pakistani graduates from Afghan terrorist training camps who came home to continue their lethal struggle. Officials think al-Qaeda is now contracting out terror assignments to Pakistani militant groups, especially the banned extremist groups Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad. "These are branch offices. They are using Pakistanis as servants," says a Pakistani terrorism expert...
...great turning point, even a kind of epiphany, took place between the ages of 8 and 10. I was able to go every day to the very well stocked Melrose branch of the New York Public Library, not far from where we lived in the Bronx. We spoke Yiddish at home. I had taught myself to read English when I was very small. To this day, my pronunciation is as odd as it is because I learned it through the eye rather than through...
...went on from there to incessantly read Shakespeare and Milton and Wallace Stevens and indeed almost all imaginative literature, so by the time I was about 15, I had exhausted the Melrose branch. At 16 or so, I started in the main library at 42nd Street, making a valiant attempt to read out the New York Public Library. But then at 17 I went off to Cornell and spent four years there reading through the Cornell library. I got to Yale as a graduate student at 21, and now I have been here 50 consecutive years. I have been reading...
...Winners GLORIA TREVI Mexican pop queen and jailhouse mom could be released from Brazilian prison. Clearly the world has its next celebrity reality show PENELOPE CRUZ Actress plans launch of U.S. branch of Indian charity. She'll be distributing food, medicine and Tom Cruise's discarded dental braces RIO FERDINAND English defender is looking to switch teams if some club meets Leeds' $50 million asking price. Or they could sign Jeff Agoos 183 times Losers NOELLE BUSH President's niece jailed after violating court-ordered rehab. Once again, Bush family values are taken with a grain of something or other...
...previously been an active dissident in the U.S, chairing the U.S. branch of the Federation for Pro-Democracy in China...