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...American readers tired of reading about John Walker, American Taliban may be surprised to learn that he has an Australian counterpart. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Aussie David Hicks, currently in Northern Alliance custody, may soon be on his way back home to face trial for his membership of al Qaeda. The paper notes that Australia may have trouble coming up with laws under which to charge Hicks. "One problem was that when Mr. Hicks went to Afghanistan, the Taliban had the tacit support of the U.S. Government...
...their campaign promises is to create a “livelier Harvard” by moving the HCCs concerts to a bigger arena, like the football stadium, and forming a first-year social committee as a counterpart to House Committees...
Harvard sophomore goalkeeper Jessica Ruddock made eight saves during the final period, finishing the night with 24. Her Niagara counterpart, senior Tania Pinelli, had 17 saves...
...Congress have proposed a host of bills to fix that, by giving Amtrak and the states anywhere from $20 billion to $70 billion in tax-exempt bonds and loan guarantees. But despite a diverse coalition of passenger-rail supporters, from Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to his Republican counterpart Trent Lott, it's unlikely that Amtrak will control all the funding or that it will survive much longer in its current form...
...harbors similar sentiments and that this could, at a minimum, portend a change of leadership and a major rethink of the party's policy toward Beijing. This would make the KMT even more like Chen Shui-bian's DPP, and leave the mainland, suddenly, without a Taiwan counterpart advocating reunification...