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...months, was to "go as a fighter and rise to a high position of influence." He was transported across the border by Pakistani military vehicles and, once in Kabul, received orders and money from the senior Pakistani officer in Kabul, a man named Naser. Zai was in the forefront of the Taliban troops who swept into Kabul on Sept. 27 and pushed the armies of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former government's army commander, into the hills surrounding the capital. Zai was captured Oct. 13 near the Salang Pass, the high-water mark of the Taliban effort to drive Massoud...
...more personal issues, most notably Benzan's youth and Thompson's attendance record, have come to the forefront...
...Harvard, we're going to be at the forefront of thinking critically about these issues," says David S. Grewal '98-'97, the co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee...
Bennett and others have targeted no-fault divorce, in which one member of the couple can choose to end the marriage without citing a specific factor, such as adultery or desertion. Lawmakers in Michigan, which is at the forefront of this movement, recently introduced bills to abolish no-fault divorce and put up new barriers to both divorce and marriage. "Marriage is a commitment," says Brian Willats, a spokesman for the Michigan Family Forum, which supports premarital counseling. "It's not just notarized dating...
...spent the early years of her career in the trenches, caring for women and girls forced to deal with the consequences of unintended pregnancies and back-alley abortions. As director of the Dayton Planned Parenthood affiliate, and then as president of the national organization, she was at the forefront of the fight to legalize abortion and of the ongoing battle to prevent the erosion of Roe v. Wade. In her account, her efforts at Planned Parenthood were hindered not only by the forces of political conservatives and the religious right but also by some of her colleagues, balky and "ambivalent...