Word: cohorts
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...there is no shortage of spies and informers. In that mountain lair where al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are burrowed in amid local tribes that pay little heed to the government in Islamabad, at least five rival Pakistani agencies run networks in search of Osama bin Laden and his cohort. The snitches seemed to have come up with gold last week. TIME has learned that Pakistani troops, already engaged in an offensive to flush out foreign fighters, pounced on an informer's tip that al-Qaeda sympathizers were hiding with foreign militants in the village of Kalosha. Before dawn last...
...Nobody is taking on this front of the cohort, and [older adopted children] are facing really fundamental issues—issues of identity,” says Welch...
Metayer's cohort, then called the Cannibal Army, was once said to lend its grim services to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Today it makes up the most violent component of a growing opposition that threatens to destabilize Haiti. Now dubbed the Artibonite Resistance Front, the group took control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city, a week ago by attacking the main police station. All that remains of it and the adjacent prison is a few concrete walls...
...really cheesy pop culture. Gen X developed its identity by being compared, usually unfavorably, with baby boomers. In part, the standard critique was that Gen X's culture was inferior--its music phonier, its ideals shallower, its icons pettier than those of the 1960s. True or not, as this cohort pushes 40, it has perversely rebelled against this gibe by embracing it--remembering its tackiest, most disposable childhood icons most fondly of all. If Gen X-ers turned nostalgic much earlier than the 30-year-olds of decades past, maybe it's because, inundated with video, musical and commercial messages...
...education industry is the third-largest cohort of contributors to the Dean campaign, behind retirees and people in the legal profession, according to the report...