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...decisive phase as the U.S. stepped up air attacks and deployed around 1,000 ground troops to close in on Kandahar and the underground bunkers possibly sheltering al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. As U.S. Marines went into combat for the first time and a Russian Emergencies Ministry team flew into the capital, the cia confirmed that one of its agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups called for an inquiry into the 500 or so deaths, some of them caused...
...visit Tanzania, where he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Madagascar, where he met the only Korean family on the whole island. Familiar with the Korean food his own family eats, Albert tasted a blend of Korean and Madagasci cuisine, in which unripe bananas replaced traditional potatoes. More recently, he flew to Qatar courtesy of Harvard grants and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development to follow trade negotiations for the organization. Interviewing delegates and writing for a daily newspaper, Albert took an active interest in the negotiations. He explains that he follows trade policy conferences “like some...
...show." The soldier used a reporter's satellite phone to call his wife and tell her he might be on the TV news that night--"Tape it all day, will you? O.K. Love you, babe." At midnight an American AC-130 gunship began lazily circling Qala-i-Jangi. It flew five times over the same spot, spraying the southern end of the fort with a golden stream of fire. Later a massive ball of flame lifted up from the fort, kicking off a fireworks display as mortar rounds and ammunition belts fired off into the night sky. Explosions sounded through...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) flag flew at half-staff yesterday in recognition of the death of Francis Daniels Moore ’35, Moseley professor of surgery, emeritus...
DIED. KEN KESEY, 66, author and '60s counterculture superhero; following cancer surgery; in Eugene, Ore. Kesey was a rebel pundit and a comic scribe, a longtime advocate of hallucinogens and a lifelong champion of individualism. In 1962 he published his acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like...