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...drizzle and the swirling winds at Harvard Stadium. What followed was the most subdued celebration of a game-winning field goal ever—a pat on the back and a few polite words for the opposition. But that was to be expected. On this occasion, the vanquished foe wasn’t Yale, Penn or even Columbia...
...Harvard women’s volleyball team once again pounced on Ivy foe Dartmouth and split its remaining two games in a strong second-place performance at this weekend’s Crimson Classic...
...Faruq's story is a particularly useful keyhole through which to peer into the world of modern terrorism. Above all, his tale reveals the global nature of the al-Qaeda threat, as disparate groups and individuals form coalitions to fight a common, faraway foe. Islamic terrorist groups are not new; in one form or another and in countries from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, they have existed for decades. But until recently, the groups conducted local campaigns against local targets. Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), for example, focused their operations on the hated, secular Algerian government...
Osama bin Laden changed all of that, identifying America as the principle foe of Islam and urging his followers to launch attacks against U.S. civilians anywhere. By the time al-Qaeda was established in something like its present shape in the early 1990s, its message was worldwide jihad. Al-Qaeda, says Zachary Abuza of Simmons College in Massachusetts, taught the locally based terrorist groups to "talk together and network." As if to make the point, al-Qaeda's leadership has never been drawn from any one country. Bin Laden is a Saudi; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Egyptian. Other...
...course, China might have over-learned its lessons, and underestimated America's resolve. The U.S. went to war with Iraq in 1991 even though the Pentagon predicted 10,000 American casualties. Whether the U.S. would defend Asia's most vibrant democracy against a nuclear-armed foe in the same way it defended its access to oil in the Gulf is debatable. However, asked about Taiwan, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the U.S. will "strongly oppose any attempt to settle that issue by force." As for Beijing, it genuinely doesn't want to fight over Taiwan. Failure to win might...