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...unlikely militants can be caught unawares and captured in their tribal-area hideaways in the foreseeable future. Bin Laden's fighters, says Islamabad-based columnist and retired General Talat Masood, "have almost certainly melted away into the hills." Mohammed, meanwhile, is now a local hero. Mobs of cheering tribesmen gather when his six-vehicle convoy, each auto mounted with machine guns, roars past. "I believe in the concept of jihad," Mohammed told reporters in his village of Shakai after the truce was signed, adding that he still considers Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to be his "Commander of the Faithful...
...Smith Barney," says the insurgents "have a pretty good command structure. Perhaps not as formal as ours but certainly not a bunch of farmers throwing something together." Chachi says the Marines "are under observation pretty much most of the time." At 9 p.m., while some of the men gather outside to smoke and chat, wearing their body armor in the humid night air, three illumination flares float above, followed by three loud detonations. "Is that us or them?" a Marine asks. It's them. "M____________ are illuminating now," someone else says. The enemy is getting professional...
...most Harvard teams lucky enough—and good enough—to make their respective NCAA tournaments, the announcement of the brackets is an event unto itself. Players and coaches gather ceremoniously round the television and, on pins and needles, await their collective fate together—unless, of course you’re on the No. 21 Harvard men’s tennis team, in which case you just go to practice...
CASAH also identified the need for greater use of an independent researcher to gather unbiased information for cases of sexual violence brought to the Ad Board—a policy which has been utilized this year...
...There isn’t an obvious or easy way to gather feedback from students anonymously,” OSAPR Director Susan B. Marine wrote in an e-mail. “It’s also unfair to ask survivors of sexual assault and rape to spend their time giving feedback about an office when they may wish to devote their time to their healing and other processes...