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After this sighting, the room spent some days in the grips of terror. They kept outside doors to the bedrooms closed, Gagnon and Holmgren even went so far as stuffing socks in the crack between the floor and the door hoping to confine the bat to the room’s common areas...
...complete with the markings from the admissions officer who read it; your roommate request form, including an administrator’s short synopsis of your personality and your first-year proctor’s evaluation of you at the end of your freshman year. (Yes, Tom, I saw the crack you made about my doomed singing aspirations...
...Berkshire growers are now working to crack the U.S. market. "Our philosophy was to sell it to the chefs first, then the individual consumers," says Kelly Biensen, who formed Eden Farms, the domestic equivalent of Berkshire Gold, to sell exclusively to American restaurants and online at earlyautumnfarms.com "When I told them it all comes from small family farms, they said, 'We'll try it.' That's what got us into these very white-tablecloth restaurants, but the quality's what's kept us there." Still, only about 5% of Berkshire pork is sold in the U.S., with the rest going...
...Rule 1: Dig in--This Is Going to Take Some Time American air power can do plenty of damage, but Afghan experts say the Taliban's morale won't crack until it suffers heavy battlefield losses. So long as the U.S. limits its ground operations to commando raids, the job of inflicting those casualties lies with the Northern Alliance. Alliance commanders have provided their strategy for toppling the regime to anyone who will listen: once American bombs softened Taliban forces, the Alliance planned to make its move into the key northern outposts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Taliqan, cutting...
...Right now, in the interests of the anti-terror coalition, the U.S. needs Arafat to crack down on the militants and Israel to show more restraint. And on both ends, that's a tough call: Arafat will be hard-pressed to sustain any clampdown if he has nothing to show for it, even more so while Israeli forces remain inside PA territory. Ordinary Palestinians are unlikely to accept the arrest of Zeevi's assassins while Israeli forces continue to conduct assassinations of their own. And while Sharon's Labor Party partners may wring their hands and threaten to quit...