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...dean of the faculty, Princeton's third-highest academic administrator, she oversaw "cradle-to-grave" faculty and professional staff decisions, says Rohrer, including authorizations of faculty searches and the selection of department chairs, hiring, setting of salaries, tenure and promotion decisions, sabbaticals and faculty discipline...
...Beside a freshly dug grave a man named Irfan sits alone reading the Koran. His brother Mudasir Ahmed Rather, 19, and his friend Arif Mohammed Khan, 18, were the last militants to die before India's unilateral ceasefire took effect on Nov. 28. They were shot dead by Indian security forces on Nov. 26 soon after returning from their training camps in Pakistan, across the Line of Control, which divides Kashmir. Irfan says he tried to turn the two away from violence. His plea was rejected. "They said they wanted to become martyrs." Martyrs for Kashmir? "No," says Irfan, "martyrs...
Four bearded militants warm themselves at a gas heater in an Islamabad safe house. A wireless set suddenly crackles. "Our boys have entered Srinagar Airport," a grave, distant-sounding voice announces. "Pray for them. It has now been 15 minutes." The voice, speaking in Urdu and broadcasting from deep within India's part of Kashmir, is detailing the progress of a suicide mission by Lashkar-i-Taiba, a ruthless, Pakistan-based militant group waging war to wrest Kashmir from India. The four men in the safe house, also members of Lashkar-i-Taiba, immediately go into fervent prayer. They...
...Crimson offers "Crimson History" as a way for the students of today to read what the students of yesteryear wrote. Crimson History is a collection of news articles from past years, edited for space but otherwise untouched, reflecting on both the grave and the light-hearted events of the University's history...
...like to say, military flight manuals are written in blood. The growing question around the Osprey is whether its rotor design has a tendency to push the aircraft into a roll that quickly turns into a fatal plunge. Such dives "can occur at any time and consequences are exceedingly grave," according to an unreleased General Accounting Office report circulating on Capitol Hill. "The V-22 appears to be less forgiving than conventional helicopters...