Word: existance
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...also looking for ways to defuse the combustible synergies that exist between bin Laden's organization and the Taliban. One of the Pentagon's prime targets during the air campaign has been the barracks of the Taliban's 55th Brigade at Mazar-i-Sharif. The brigade's commanders come mostly from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and its members are Arabs who were reeled into Afghanistan by bin Laden to train in terrorist camps. The "Afghan Arabs" are the Taliban's elite militants and ideological shock troops, sometimes dispatched to cajole reluctant elements of the Taliban's 45,000-man army...
...Alliance can claim some progress: it allows Nazir's group to exist. But she is the only woman in Khoja Bahauddin who doesn't wear a burka in public. Her privileged status as an overseas-educated aid worker partially protects her from the beating Osema received. But when Nazir shakes hands with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading...
...there be no doubt: Fighting is absolutely forbidden when the conditions mentioned above do not exist. And if at any point, the tyrant stops his oppressive ways or the cause of self-defense is removed, then fighting must stop immediately...
Rather than having the final clubs change, we wish they would simply cease to exist. Having them reform to be recognized by the College will simply officially sanction a system of social exclusion which harms all undergraduates, not just women. RUS was on the right track in targeting final clubs. They simply did not take their protest far enough...
While the financial aid office does recognize these problems exist, their response comes off as cold. “There may well be a serious problem. To be fair to all our students, we can base our financial aid decisions only on ability and not willingness to pay and a decision to attend Harvard must be made by you and your parents.” This frustrates Lash further. “What are you supposed to do when your aid package is based upon a contribution that you will never...