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Inside Afghanistan. At last. After weeks of signing up on countless lists, sending in dozens of ID photos and trying to ingratiate myself with any bearded man who pops through the iron gate of the Quetta consulate of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, I'd about given up hope of entering the last remaining Taliban strongholds. Then, last Monday, the Taliban started issuing visas to every reporter in sight. TIME magazine was right up there with Mexican TV and Swedish radio...
...about air travel, Subash Gurung decided to fly from Chicago to Omaha, Neb. The jobless Nepalese man, here on an expired visa, got through security at O'Hare airport last week with five knives, a stun gun and a container marked TEAR GAS/PEPPER SPRAY. After a search at the gate uncovered the weapons, Gurung was arrested but soon released on bond. He was taken into custody only when he returned to O'Hare to pick up another bag, filled with more knives. And in the story's grim punch line, two of the seized knives were later stolen from...
Davis cited the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in San Francisco, among others, as likely targets, though they were never specified in the various warnings put out by the FBI, Customs Service and Coast Guard. Some counterterrorism officials were flabbergasted by Davis' disclosure, but President Bush refused to criticize his actions, diplomatically stating that "as a former Governor, I didn't particularly care when the Federal Government tried to tell me how to do my business...
...Australia where the finance company he works for had planned to celebrate its 10th anniversary. After the U.S. attacks, the company canceled the trip. So Kawaguchi was making it up to his disappointed wife, an events M.C., and their two toddlers with an outing to Disneyland. At the gate, though, Hanako looks a little nervous. "Disney is American, after all," she frets. "Am I worrying too much if I think this too could be a target...
While student presence certainly is missed at these games, we are not entirely to blame. The administration has done its share to discourage school spirit. Parking passes for Gate 6, the gate closest to the stadium and where all of the tailgates go on, are virtually impossible for any student to get without donating $1,000 to Friends of Harvard Football. Kegs have been prohibited from the Gate 6 area. The administration perpetuates the problem by not offering special shuttles to transport students across the river when weather gets colder...