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...past ten years, the total number of hours logged by dorm crew workers has fallen by 67 percent, but in the past five years, the number of students participating has risen by almost 30 percent...
...past five years, both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School have completed major capital campaigns, raising $476 million and $599 million respectively...
...well-funded terrorists from getting past a police checkpoint with a load of grenade launchers instead of heroin? Wednesday's brazen suicide raid on an international guesthouse in Kabul that killed six U.N. employees, including one American, and a subsequent rocket-propelled-grenade volley on the capital's only five-star hotel are clear indications that the city's protective perimeter - manned by Afghan security forces - was breached. If the CIA can't uphold law and order in Afghanistan, how can one expect Afghans, who haven't had much experience with either over the past 30 years, to do better...
Hamid Karzai, of course, routinely dismisses the accusations against his brother, calling them Western plots to take down his presidency. He told TIME in a 2008 interview that "for the past five years, allegations have been there, but never have they come to me with proof. My brother can easily be accused to put pressure on me ... [He was accused of running drugs] precisely after I refused to allow aerial spraying of poppies." The Times' allegations, coming to light little more than a week before Afghans head to the polls for a runoff vote between Karzai and former Foreign Minister...
...absent when the offices of the provincial council were bombed by five suicide bombers on April 1, in an attack that killed 13. The offices were previously bombed in Nov. 2008, in an attack that killed...