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...trail went cold sometime in December 2001, when Osama bin Laden slipped away from the caves and forests of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan into the wild White Mountains that stretch along the Afghan-Pakistani border. The precise date on which he left Tora Bora isn't known. Pakistani intelligence claims that he was gone as early as Dec. 8, when a bungled operation by American special-operations troops and their local allies to flush al-Qaeda leaders out of the mountains had only just begun. But one former Taliban fighter says bin Laden slipped away when the besieging forces...
...Paying The Piper As the International Energy Agency warned that OPEC's spare daily capacity may fall a million barrels short of demand during an Iraq war, China moved to cut its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Two state-owned firms agreed to buy British BG Group's $1.2 billion stake in the Caspian, raising the chance of a pipeline to China...
...Washington Wizards are currently 31-33, and one game behind Milwaukee for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. And yet, this may be Michael Jordan’s most impressive season of his career and one of the most impressive seasons by any player of all-time...
...Most of the eastern women skiers are juniors this year as well, so its going to be very competitive,” McLoon said...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team made sure that last year’s defeat was just that and reclaimed the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) title on Saturday evening with 1,592 points, edging out Princeton and its 1,556 in a competition which might as well have excluded the other eight schools present...