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...America stands for. The terrorists’ goal on Sept. 11 was not just the annihilation of buildings and the death of thousands of people, but also an attack on American values. To respond by violating our constitutional rights and limiting our civil liberties would be equivalent to declaring defeat. The terrorists will have...
...would be nothing short of a resounding moral victory if the United States worked with its Muslim and Arab citizens to defeat the force that hijacked Islam for its evil ends. It would avoid another bloody war and it would deliver a message more powerful than our biggest bombs...
...Crimson beat the Stags 68-62 on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s championship game against Villanova, where Harvard fell to the Wildcats 59-51. Fairfield went on to defeat Quinnipiac 66-61 in the consolation game on Sunday...
...think that's true." Across Afghanistan, people deserted the regime as soon as it started losing, exposing its shallow hold on them. "The Taliban showed they were good at enforcing beard lengths," says a Western diplomat, "and that's about it." The first, pivotal defeat of the Taliban, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was greased by local Pashtun fed up with taking orders from "these village idiots from the south," as a foreign aid worker put it. Those fighters cut a secret deal with Alliance commander Rashid Dostum to allow Dostum's cavalry to pour through...
...team you saw today wasn’t the team that was here yesterday,” said junior captain Jamie Hagerman following the defeat. “I wish we could have brought that [team] today to show them that that wasn’t Harvard hockey, that this was a little bit of a deviant from what we usually play. We didn’t bring the same intensity and we weren’t as determined as we could have been...