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Even with an increase, the Gilbert Grant funding will still be only a tiny fraction of the total $54 million the College awarded in direct need-based scholarships last year...
...what, exactly, is the U.S. government supposed to do about it? The patriotic "national interest" line pushed so hard by steel makers (and a zillion other industries) since Sept. 11 is a bit shaky. Domestic producers could produce a fraction of what they do now and still have enough to cover the defense industry's needs, and even if they all went out of business it's hard to imagine a war that would induce countries like South Korea, Mexico, Argentina and Japan to impose some politically inspired OPEC-style embargo...
...training camp near Jalalabad. Garzón alleges that Yarkas and his co-conspirators were on the move constantly to send recruits and, when possible, money to support al-Qaeda. Some of the cell members allegedly made fraudulent use in Spain of credit cards stolen in Britain; a fraction of their proceeds went to Sheik Salah in Peshawar...
Choudary and Yahya belong to the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, and though they speak for only a tiny fraction of Britain's 2 million Muslims, their views received grim publicity last week with the news that three British-born Muslims had been killed in Kabul--allegedly in a U.S. bombing raid on a Taliban compound--after volunteering for the jihad...
...Despite losing Mazar, the Taliban is far from crippled. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits that air strikes have killed only a tiny fraction of the Taliban forces, who are burrowed into caves and hidden in mosques and schools. The regime may be marshaling its soldiers and artillery for a hellacious counterattack. "It's not very surprising, given the heavy U.S. bombings, that they pulled out of Mazar," says Rifaat Hussain, head of defense and strategic studies at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If the Taliban choose to fight a real battle, it will be over Kabul." The capital...