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...militants kept 8,000 Pakistani soldiers half a mile away with a steady barrage of small-arms fire, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. After a day of battle, the army commander called in helicopter gunships, jets and artillery. By Saturday night a cloud of dust hung over the area, but the army had still not defeated the militants. "We've tightened our cordon," said Sultan. "Nobody will escape...
...Department of Education in 1994, home education has expanded to more than 2 million students, as reported by Congress’ Homeschool Non-Discrimination Act last July. With that expansion, the stereotype of home educators as reclusive, right-wing Christian fundamentalists has been left in the dust. Today’s home educators include self-proclaimed secularists and Muslim immigrants, traditional Catholics and homosexual partners, Ivy League grad students as well as Bostonians convinced that government schools will never teach history except from a “white Anglo-Saxon perspective...
...Today was a nail biter in every way,” said junior Jonathan Chu when the dust had settled at the Lagoon Park Tennis Club in Montgomery...
...presidential candidate whom everyone had once anointed the Democratic front runner was careering toward oblivion. Kerry was about to fire his campaign manager and wanted Senator Edward Kennedy's chief of staff to take over an operation that was short on money, full of backbiting and left in the dust by the Internet-and-anger-fueled phenomenon that was Howard Dean. "So I showed up Monday morning," she says, "and that was that...
...always sad when another store in Harvard Square that’s not a chain bites the dust,” says Lily L. Brown ’04, who made her first visit to the store after hearing from a friend that everything was deeply discounted...