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...roughly 500 detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, none is more notorious than Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker." Only weeks before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five [and the one that ended up crashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: '20th Hijacker' Claims That Torture Made Him Lie | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...Flint, Mich., where workers’ jobs are being outsourced, he challenged the academics to come up with a realistic suggestion for the Buick-city mayor. “That’s the political reality,” said Summers, pointing to former Senator Bob Graham D-Fla. in the audience who was nodding in agreement. Graham was a fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this fall and is serving as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs this spring. “That?...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Evening With (Economic) Champions | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...vacation destination the weekend before his resignation. While the soon-to-be outgoing president enjoyed a five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that Corporation members Nannerl O. Keohane and James R. Houghton...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok's Loyalty Brings Him Back | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...book in January, “Take It Back,” a strategy guide for Democrats to oust Republicans and restore Clinton-era politics. “The Democrats are confused,” Carville said to the packed forum that included former Senator Bob Graham, D-Fla. “They sit and don’t know [whether] to wind their butts or scratch their watches.” Begala advised troubled Democrats to ask, “What would Clinton do?” Begala cited the Democrats’ docile response to Republican fliers distributed...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strategists Share Keys to Success | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1987 | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

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