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...related development that demonstrates the geographical range and continuing vitality of JI, TIME has learned that an alleged senior JI operative, Zubair, was arrested in late July in southern Thailand along with a number of other suspected JI members. Although it's unclear what Zubair's exact role is, experts say that he is suspected of being a critical link in JI's financial dealings, with particular responsibility for operations in Cambodia and Thailand. Zubair is also suspected of having strong ties to al-Qaeda, although regional intelligence sources have been reluctant to discuss his case, which is being kept...
Maybe not everyone who writes news stories shares the same exact excitement, but it still seems that I’m not the only one who likes datelines. Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair liked datelines so much that he’d put them in his articles even if he hadn’t visited those cities. My colleagues at The Crimson have managed to turn this little scrap of journalism into an art form. Among the unorthodox datelines I’ve seen on this page this summer are the abstract “THE INTERNSHIP LINE?...
...University of Pennsylvania neurologist Andrew Newberg hooked up a group of Buddhist meditators to IVs containing a radioactive dye that he hoped would track blood flow in the brain, lighting up the parts that were the most active. But the only way for Newberg to freeze-frame the exact moment when they reached their meditative peak was to sit in the next room, tie a string around his finger and snake the other end under the door and leave it next to the meditators. When they reached meditative Nirvana, they pulled the string, and Newberg released the dye into...
While Kirby wrote that the exact duties of the new deans have yet to be finalized, he said they will lead academic planning on the divisional level, help to allocate resources and have an advisory role in the faculty appointment process...
...outrage is the crippling of AmeriCorps, which he had pledged to increase in size. He probably believes that his tax cuts for the wealthy will help reduce the mammoth $455 billion budget deficit (which doesn't include the cost of Iraq), even though Ronald Reagan found that the exact opposite was true and had to raise taxes twice to repair the damage done by his 1981 cuts. And Bush probably believed, as the sign said, that the "mission" had been "accomplished" in Iraq when he landed on the aircraft carrier costumed as a flyboy. He may even have believed that...