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Members can also log on to the Coop’s website to find out the exact amount of their rebates or to donate their rebates to the Harvard or MIT communities, Murphy said...
...Ideally, the U.S. would like to exact two concessions from Sharon: a commitment to ease the Israeli army's occupation of the West Bank, and a tacit assurance that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq should Saddam Hussein, faced with imminent military defeat, lob Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...
...nine months the exact nature of the Mecca's cargo or the shipment's eventual destination remained unknown. But there were clues. Portworkers that night said they saw five motor launches ferry in large groups of men from the boat wearing black turbans, long beards and traditional Islamic salwar kameez. Their towering height suggested these travelers were foreigners, and the boxes of ammunition and the AK-47s slung across their shoulders helped sketch a sinister picture. Then in July, a senior member of Bangladesh's largest terrorist group, the 2,000-strong al-Qaeda-allied Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami...
...long been apparent that former president Bill Clinton has a unique difficulty recalling past events. Indeed, he spent a significant portion of his eight years in the White House telling grand juries and independent counsels that, try as he might, he simply couldn’t remember the exact details of a key conversation or transaction...
Unfortunately, the tower’s 360-degree view of Harvard is difficult to appreciate with the bell swinging within inches of one’s head. Though the schedule is complex and exact, Campbell graciously allows for some experimentation. After a demo swing or two, FM let the Mem Hall bell rip. And ask not, gentle reader, for whom it was tolling...