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...some ways, the U.S. may be using forces too big for their own good. In snippets of conversations intercepted by U.S. intelligence, al-Qaeda leaders have instructed cell members simply to lie low when Americans descend because "there's too many of them." Says Colonel James Huggins: "They won't confront us in our superior numbers," which makes them almost impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE THE JIHAD: AFGHANISTAN: Taunts from The Border | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Harvard will be well-represented as the top women’s tennis players from Virginia to Maine descend upon Cambridge this weekend to compete in the Omni Hotels Eastern Regional Championships from Friday to Tuesday...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women’s Tennis Hosts Best of the East | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

With the leaves turning and minor friends about to descend upon freshman dorms and upperclass houses for the weekend, the 38th annual Head of the Charles River Regatta, is set to commence tomorrow morning...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crew, College Prep for Head of the Charles | 10/18/2002 | See Source »

...international group of diplomats will descend on Harvard to hash out a modern interpretation of the Geneva Convention in a January conference called by the Swiss government...

Author: By Ben A. Black, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diplomats To Draft Humanitarian Laws | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

...country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season in Nice (Little, Brown; 309 pages), effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Nice for Too Many | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

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