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...Muslims all over the world, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, is a sacred time for introspection, religious devotion and fasting. Yet U.S.-led coalition members have repeatedly rebuffed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s request that they halt bombing during the holy month of Ramadan, set to begin...
Princeton was leading 10-7 nearing the end of the third quarter when the Tigers mounted an 80-yard drive. That drive came to a halt at the Penn 2-yard line with less than three minutes left in the third quarter. Penn then assembled an impressive 18-play, 98-yard drive that culminated in a two-yard touchdown dive from running back Kris Ryan. Ryan finished the day with one touchdown on 36 carries for 166 yards...
...butlers for a public that, unlike its leaders, has no shortage of imagination. Samples of dirt, detergent and sugar are clogging Fort Detrick and the few other labs that can test for anthrax. An oozing Albuquerque package is found to contain homemade tamales. White powder that brings to a halt a Little Rock, Ark., rally for drug-free schools turns out to be powdered sugar from a funnel cake...
...latest in a long line to address situations, from South Africa to Tibet, for which the city felt it needed a foreign policy. By the time it was passed, it had been watered down to a call to "break the cycle of violence" by bringing the bombing to a halt "as soon as possible." Even then, the vote was deeply divided. But diluting the resolution made no difference. Thousands of boycott threats started pouring in to the place that practically taught America how to boycott. "We're getting e-mails saying, 'I'm not going to spend another dime...
...spirit of a holiday calls us to once again enjoy our one-time blissful ignorance of the realities of terrorism. After all, the likes of Osama bin Laden succeed when the cultures they target grind to a halt, possessed by threat and fear. American culture, and especially the Harvard community, must not succumb so easily. Air strikes are effective retaliation, but for tonight, kids trick-or-treating and college students partying without fear send a louder message to bin Laden that his tactics have failed...