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Other Taliban bosses are living openly in Pakistani cities, according to Afghan intelligence officials and several jailed jihadis. A captured seminary dropout, for example, claims he was recruited to carry bombs into Afghanistan by a senior Taliban living in Peshawar's swanky Hyatabad district. And an Afghan who works with the U.S. in Kandahar, Afghanistan, says the former Taliban Defense Minister, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, openly celebrated his marriage to a teenage bride in Quetta several months ago. "We know the entire al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership is on the other side, and we can't do a damn thing about...
...campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...
...practices without the necessary pads. At college practices, our coach walked around with lit cigarettes and stuck them in our players mouths (through their helmets) during the frequent breaks their tarred lungs demanded. The head coach of our college team-—a thirty two-year-old college dropout who spent all his time at parties thrown by kids half his age and slept on our fullback’s couch—was often interrupted during his “inspirational speeches” (which involved little more than the word “fuck?...
...first night of the Republican National Convention—Monday, Aug. 30—a junior Bulldog found himself on a Secret Service leash after harassing Vice President (and Yale dropout) Dick Cheney. Thomas Frampton, a liberal leader on the New Haven campus, was arrested for assaulting federal officers after coming within 10 feet of Cheney’s private seating area and shouting anti-Bush slogans...
...roller-coaster China. The latest to let it all hang out is teenage iconoclast Chun Sue's Beijing Doll. This semiautobiographical novel, first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author. For Chun, school is an annoyance that keeps her from more pressing concerns like boyfriends, punk-rock clubs, shopping malls and McDonald's. After dropping out to write for a fashion rag, Chun goes back to school. But she can't abide the monotony...