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...clamp down. Taliban recruitment and training occurs relatively openly across the border, reminding journalists of the movement's emergence a decade ago in the madressas of Pakistan. The country is nominally on friendly terms with President Karzai, but it is also well aware that his writ doesn't extend much beyond the palace gate - and also that the Northern Alliance which dominates the government all around Karzai is closely allied to India, whose influence has grown considerably at Pakistan's expense in the post-Taliban Afghanistan...
...cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats. Iraqis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, will "figure out a way to manage their affairs" that will be "consistent with the principles that we set out." (Those principles, just so you know, don't extend to an "Iranian-type government," which, quoth the good Secretary, "ain't gonna happen...
...Undergraduate Council grilled Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby with a round of tough questions at its meeting last night before resolving to extend keycard access and affirming its commitment to cable access for students via Ethernet...
...final meeting, the ad hoc committee, the president and the dean interview several of the candidates’ colleagues. Months or minutes after this meeting, the President makes the final decision on whether to extend an offer...
...squad never threatened to extend the total to 253 as the Big Red (10-5, 4-3) dominated the pace of play and left little opportunity for Harvard to accomplish much of anything on the pitch...