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...carried out the embassy attack? The Arab members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...
...carried out the embassy attack? The Arab members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...
Wycliffe and his cohort may soon get their wish. Berkeley is gentrifying fast. Its median house price is four times the national average, thanks to an influx of yuppie couples and dot-commers who have spent the past decade bidding up the prices of two-bedroom bungalows. And because California banned affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60% of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee--the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland...
...different cohort,” D’Alessandro said...
...Wycliffe and his cohort may soon get their wish. Berkeley is gentrifying fast. Its median house price is four times the national average, thanks to an influx of yuppie couples and dot-commers who have spent the past decade bidding up the prices of two-bedroom bungalows. And because California banned affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60 percent of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee - the member of Congress for Berkeley...