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...Taliban has three command posts in the trench line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban...
...League Championship. We look forward to watching the hurricane that is the undefeated Harvard football team make short work of the pasty and feeble Bulldogs. And we pray for the safety of tens of thousands of loyal Harvard fans who will descend upon New Haven, braving the crack dealers, prostitutes and other prestigious Yale alumni to cheer on their undefeated team...
Thereve been a lot of jokes about what a slum New Haven is. But theres nothing funny about shit-covered sidewalks, broad-daylight muggings and crack whores operating out of the Stillman College courtyard...
...seems like an ordinary Thursday nighta bunch of people gobbling down Bertuccis pizza in between all the latest gossip. But when it comes to naming their food of choice, they are all at a loss for words. So they crack open the dictionary to find the word laganum, loosely translated long flat bread covered in cheese. Its not such an ordinary Thursday night when the conversation is in Latin...
...Taliban has no spy-in-the-sky satellites. It can't bug a telephone or crack an enemy code. But even so, its intelligence service is murderously effective--both inside Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan, where Taliban spies are suspected of having carried out several assassinations in the past two years...