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...Kurds had laid out bait for their prey. In early January, Kurdish security officials spread word in the villages along Iraq's border with Iran that one stretch of the mountainous frontier was lightly guarded and thus safe for travelers who had reason to slip unnoticed in or out of the country. Then the Kurds waited. "It was like dropping seeds for a chicken, saying 'Come, come,' and then catching it," a Kurdish official involved in the sting told TIME. It was a crisp morning in mid-January when the chicken fell into the trap...
...signature lilting tone, Jackson promised “voter registration and racial reconciliation” in the South while stressing the importance of capital as the final frontier of the Civil Rights Movement...
...members lie low just over Iraq's eastern border in the Iranian town of Marivan. Iranians there do a busy trade producing fake identity cards for Ansar fighters for their return to Iraq across the 5,000-foot mountains. With overburdened Iraqi border patrols guarding a 1,000-mile frontier, Ansar's return is almost impossible to block, and Kurdish guards expect little help from Iranian officials in stopping the infiltration...
Forget higher pay or the right to choose. The final frontier of women’s liberation is making it easier for women to come—and not just onstage during the Vagina Monologues...
...fellow enlightened Harvard women, this frontier need not be distant. We can make the elusive orgasm our own, if we only plunge our hands down our pants and, you know, work on it. If we only make masturbation acceptable, even encouraged, we can break new gender boundaries, take more control in the bedroom, orgasm more, earlier and better. But, like all revolutions, this one is easier said than done...