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Talking About the Future Barber Abdalhadi works late and without a bodyguard. When the militias held sway, he employed security and had to close up shop at 4 p.m. "If I had stayed later, they would have come to kill me," he says. The militias declared that shaving was un-Muslim. Gangs took advantage of the pervasive fear to run protection rackets. In 2007, Abdalhadi's friend and colleague Shareef was murdered with a drill, but Abdalhadi continued to ply his trade. "I'm the breadwinner," he says...
...spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means," he told an interviewer. But more soldiers are needed, if only to stop the grim litany of bad news from Afghanistan getting worse. With sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan--which the government there seems in no hurry to close down--and with a growing acceptance of the Taliban's strength in Afghanistan, militants have the wind at their back. They welcomed U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke to Kabul by attacking three government buildings, leaving 26 people dead...
...shopper in sight. Every conversation with anyone selling anything is a pantomime of pain and bluff. Finger the scarf, then start to walk away, and its price floats silkily downward. When the mechanic calls to tell you that brakes and a timing belt and other services will run close to $2,000, it's time to break out the newly perfected art of the considered pause. You really don't even have to say anything pitiful before he'll offer to knock a few hundred dollars...
...where is Harvard in all this? Another close game lost at the end, this time at Columbia...
...during a 16-game stretch. During the consolation final of this year’s Beanpot, Carroll finally got his chance. Playing against No. 15 Boston College in front of a sold-out crowd at T.D. Banknorth Garden, Carroll made 42 saves in his first career start. Despite a close 4-3 loss to the Eagles, Carroll demonstrated that the effort he’s put in since the previous season has paid off. “Matt Hoyle is a great goalie, and I was confident that he would play well [in the beginning of the season...