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This is one face of the insurgency challenging the American occupation of Iraq, an insurgency that so far has claimed the lives of 191 soldiers since President George W. Bush declared the end of "major combat operations" last May. And there are many more faces. U.S. authorities are struggling to illuminate who exactly is out there creeping around in the dark. "It's hard to get your hands around what the enemy looks like," says a U.S. official close to the occupation. In briefings, U.S. officials often claim to know the enemy's size, origins, motivations and chances of success...
...will find a company with world-altering answers. Want proof? Meet some of the 2004 Tech Pioneers--this year's crop of 30 cutting-edge amazers, which will be announced this week by the World Economic Forum, prior to its annual meeting in Davos. They are working to combat AIDS, cancer, blindness and hunger. They're developing software that can keep track of anyone or anything, and new sources of power to wean the world from oil. Wish them luck...
...spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used as a way station by militants traveling to and from the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines for combat training. No, says Nyupeno, he has never heard of Suryadi Mas'ud, currently imprisoned for involvement in several bombings in the south Sulawesi city of Makassar in December 2002. Suryadi told police he spent several years guiding militants from a JI-affiliated group in Makassar to Mindanao...
...Harvard, Nkosi maintains eclectic interests such as gumboots dancing, a form of South African dancing similar to African-American step dancing. She decorates her room with colorful shoulder bags and scarves to combat what she calls the “drab and bleak” colors of Cambridge. She practices Wing Chun kung fu, co-founded and edits Harvard’s African Magazine, and received a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship...
...during events like Arts First and Parents’ Weekends, and usher at Commencement. Like most other extracurricular clubs here on campus, we also enjoy throwing parties for our members and support active social opportunities for all students. I agree wholeheartedly with Jenelle’s pledge to combat irresponsible partying. However, Jennelle fails to recognize that this is something the Crimson Key Society already does...