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Yale Students Against Divestment has held a number of teach-ins on campus. Meanwhile, on Monday, Yale’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, another group supporting the divestment petition, created a mock “checkpoint.” Students dressed in Israeli soldier uniforms, carrying cardboard and plastic rifles, stopped students walking to class and shoved the rifles in their faces. According to the Yale Daily News, frightened spectators eventually called the police to the scene, but no arrests were made...
...after 8:00 am, one of Kabul?s top generals, Bismillah Khan, commander of the city's garrison and a deputy to the defense minister, arrived at the Presidential Palace to meet one of the former king's advisers. The general and his bodyguard glided past an Afghan army checkpoint at the visitors? gate only to be stopped forty yards later by U.S. soldiers assigned to protect Karzai. The Americans wanted to search the car and the general, but Khan refused. When the U.S. soldiers attempted to physically remove him from the car, fifteen Kandahari mujahedin (bodyguards for the former...
...having hardened the soft targets and stored some water and a flashlight, we try to move on as though nothing fundamental has been lost, head down the road in our gas-guzzling cars and not mind if there's a checkpoint along the way. The Fourth of July fireworks in Omaha, Neb., this summer culminated first in a proud, fiery, red-white-and-blue U.S.A., then in rockets that formed smiley faces, then peace symbols. Which mood best fits the moment? Berkeley, Calif., the antiwar town, is busy promulgating laws that would ban coffee that's not environmentally friendly...
...Qaeda men showed up for the ride with AK-47s and grenades bulging under their tribal robes. They refused to allow Niazi to ride shotgun up front, where he had a chance to escape, and wedged him between two Uzbeks in the back. As the van neared the checkpoint where the ambush awaited, Niazi started to sweat. The police roadblock was hidden by a rocky hill, and when the driver took the curve, he had to slam hard on the brakes. About 70 cops were hidden behind large boulders on one side of the road and among the tombstones...
...blood-alcohol level was still .091 the next morning, even as he was about to pilot the 10:38 a.m. flight. Hughes' was .084. Miami airport guards say the two got verbally abusive when they were not allowed to take their cups of Starbucks coffee past a security checkpoint. The guards tipped off airline agents and Miami-Dade County police, who stopped the Airbus as it was being pushed away from the gate...