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...arrested for possessing explosives and spent five years in prison, where he memorized the Koran and drafted cellmates to join his quest to overthrow Jordan's secular rulers. "Either you were with them or you were an enemy," a former prison mate told TIME in 2004. "There was no gray area." Al-Zarqawi drifted back to Afghanistan and passed through Iran and northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion in March 2003. In the chaotic days after the fall of Saddam, al-Zarqawi began to build a terrorist network by luring foreign jihadis to Iraq. He pulled off his first...
...Clark talk to their audiences in the same cautiously flattering way, making self-deprecating but pat references to how old and out of touch they are with this new generation - remarks that were clearly thought up long before they walked into the room, which is filled with plenty of gray hairs and laugh lines. Richardson ventures into an odd sidebar about how former Dallas star Victoria Principal was the first person to purchase a ticket for New Mexico?s private space port; he asks if people get the ?Dallas? reference, saying, ?I?m not that old.? A blogger harrumphs...
...Staff writer Katie M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...Consulting Group in New York, says he has similar sentiments.“I don’t think it has any affect on donation,” he says. “And my reasoning for that is that all of us who have a little bit of gray hair have seen at least half a dozen presidents and recognize that Harvard is far bigger than any one individual or any one president. Any ill feeling on the part of alumni or folks who gave money shouldn’t have any effect.”Sidney R. Knafel...
...picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment.” The service has been part of Harvard’s exercises since the University’s first Commencement in 1642, six years after the school’s founding. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...