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AFGHANISTAN Rush to Create Post-Taliban Government Opposition groups, diplomats and aid agencies scrambled to fill the political vacuum left in Kabul and other key Afghan cities abandoned by Taliban fighters under the twin onslaught of U.S. bombing and Northern Alliance advances. But there were ominous signs that warlords were reclaiming their traditional fiefdoms, threatening the country with fragmentation. Air strikes against al-Qaeda targets continued past the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Taliban leaders remained defiant, and U.S. ground troops clashed for the first time with Taliban soldiers in the south. As British forces secured...
...Dean for Academic Services Joel C. Monell said that the new scholarships would fill a prominent gap by providing full multi-year awards to a number of doctoral students...
...While the Beijing's People's Daily this week published a lively interview with officials from Al Jezeera - they like the station for the very reasons Washington doesn't - most of its attention was on China's bid to "fill in a void in [the] nation's space history" by sending a mission to the moon. Someone ought to point out to Beijing that once the U.S. won the "race" to the moon in 1969, the Soviets never sent a manned mission there. (The U.S. didn't send too many more, either, because there wasn't all that much...
Penn will lose 18 starters to graduation this off-season including Hoffman, Ryan and wide out Rob Milanese, but Penn still has a plethora of young players waiting to fill the gaps and keep the Quakers competitive next season...
...jungle redoubt by Oliver Stone. The insurgent presented the filmmaker with a ski-mask and pipe just like his own, and the two of them rode off on burros side by side. Anybody can be Marcos, and similarly it could be quite possible for more than one individual to fill the flak jacket of Bin Laden. And it's not as if the DNA samples or dental records will be easily available to debunk the claims of pretenders. Or at least, that's what al-Qaeda's spokesmen evidently want us to believe...