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...makes it easier to get high-profile work. So as Chinwe grew up, she started to work for small-time Boston designers and segued into New York City gigs. Even after discovering that she could excel in the modeling world, Chinwe shied away from plunging entirely into the sometimes brutal and unforgiving miasma of high fashion. She always considered modeling to be a sideline to her studies and the pursuit of a college education. iI had a lot of constraints, and I wasnit able to do all of the things they offered me,i she says. Her first priority...
...Christian or Jew should ever have to condone the chauvinistic and extremely brutal Maronite regime and militia which seized power during the Lebanese Civil War thanks to Israeli sponsorship. Nor should they blindly accept the Israeli army's pretexts for their incursion into Southern Lebanon, however much it may have played into the hands of this or that "Christian" mercenary warlord or ostensibly defended northern Galilee. Likewise, no Muslim should succumb to Hizbollah's rallying cries of retaliation and nihilistic hatred. To be sure, in desperate reaction to the Israeli occupation of the South and the major invasions...
...their heads. Previous generations too have wandered everywhere from Key Largo to Kathmandu for post-school, pre-career adventures. A few stumbled upon scenes where they felt, for a few magical moments, that the old rules didn't apply. But just as those paradises were transformed by the brutal economics of tourism, Ko Pha-Ngan is already morphing into a travel brochure. Electricity arrived in 1997. Roads are being paved. And along Hadrin's main thoroughfare, where Thai kids once touted magic-mushroom shakes, cyber-shops now offer e-mail access...
Investigators have a few circumstantial clues hinting at bin Laden's involvement. Ressam and several of his Montreal-based associates, once linked to the brutal Algerian terror organization Armed Islamic Group, had grown away from that band's local fight. FBI agents have unverified reports that they trained at camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is a major funder of Islamic militancy. While police found no signatures that prove the provenance of the timing devices in Ressam's car, the units were "strikingly similar" to ones produced at bin Laden's camps...
Last Tuesday was but one thing for the average Harvard student: hectic. We were a sad, torn student body. We yearned to savor our final hours of academic freedom until the very end of our intersession break. But the sub-zero temperatures and brutal wind chill factors kept us from enjoying what could have been a delightful New England February day. And how could we really enjoy the last day of our vacation when it meant the inevitable trek back to campus...