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...time to adjust to how fast the pace is—how well-conditioned you have to be, how strong you have to be,” Tillman said. “We really challenged Jeff in the fall, and it was not easy for him…He fought through it, hung in there, and I’m really proud of him for that.” Cohen started playing lacrosse around age five on Long Island, NY. He credits his brothers with introducing him to the game and inspiring him to achieve success. “They...
...available to maintain the anticipated pace of Allston construction. This exhortation particularly applies to the science complex portion of the development program. The university plans to finish laying its foundation, but the slowdown as proposed will slow or stop the later phases of the project. The university has fought a constant struggle with the Allston community over the details of the expansion across the river. But now, at this point in the construction, a chorus of residents finally agrees that the continuation of Harvard’s growth across the river is in residents’ best interest. We encourage...
More substantively, he derided much of the Obama administration's moves so far, saying, "The Democrats have set in motion a plan to consolidate control over health care decisions, welfare programs that we've fought for generations, and now are putting in the hands of government to determine the winners and losers of our marketplace. This is not stimulating." Now, all Steele and his party can deliver is a plausible alternative...
...their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded in 2001. Even though he has renounced violence, Mohammed still denounces democracy as a "heresy." Now he must convince the man who has stolen his thunder - Maulana Fazlullah, whose forces control 80% of the area after a fierce two-year conflict with...
...Mohammed's success will hinge on his ability to persuade his former acolyte to end his insurgency. Fazlullah learned at the feet of Mohammed in the 1990s, fought alongside him in Swat and later in Afghanistan, and married his daughter. Both men were imprisoned upon their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift that ferries people across the Swat river. According to local lore, it was after his brother was killed in a U.S. missile strike on the village of Damadola...