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...Afghanistan. The tactic is aimed at sowing doubt and fear among Afghans, with the ultimate goal of reimposing the Taliban's primeval control over parts of the country--and it's working. The campaign took a lethal turn three weeks ago, when Taliban fighters blew up a busload of Afghan laborers heading to work at a U.S. military base near Kandahar, killing eight. Atrocities like that are commonplace in America's other battleground in the war against terrorism, Iraq, but the bombing represented the first large-scale attack on Afghan civilians working with coalition forces since the U.S. toppled...
...mirror designed to shift my gaze from the road to my traveling companions? And while the DVD player takes the edge off long trips with my 2-year-old son, I can't shake this feeling that it's only a matter of time before I plow into a busload of schoolkids while struggling to cue up SpongeBob SquarePants. My navigation system, meanwhile, not only can locate the five nearest Chinese restaurants from any point in the continental U.S. but will also remind me that I have a noon dental appointment and that I need to pick...
Dartmouth will visit Lavietes Pavilion tomorrow, bringing with it a busload of frenzied fans from Hanover...
...Louis (who died in 1991) and his siblings. Planned by five of the cousins, the event spanned a three-day weekend in October 2003. The group retraced the lives of their pioneering ancestors by visiting their synagogue, businesses and even Louis' home, where the current owner, seeing a busload of people in front of his house, invited them all in for coffee. (They politely declined...
...Three months ago, Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombing and Tuesday's ambush of a busload of settlers at the Immanuel settlement might have triggered an invasion of Palestinian cities and air strikes on Palestinian Authority security installations. But the seven major Palestinian cities on the West Bank, whence the culprits in the latest attacks are likely to have come, have been under the control of the Israeli Defense Force for the past three weeks, with residents - and PA security personnel - subject to almost constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority...