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Last Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and others reported that Harvard had helped Harken Energy create an Enron-style, “off the books,” partnership to hide $20 million of Harken’s debt while George W. Bush was on Harken’s board. Why were most of us Harvard students the last to know? Although the deal may have been technically in accordance with the accounting rules of the time—it is hard to know without more information—it certainly did not live...
...weapons of mass destruction, but not all of the ones he was known to have. Since inspections broke off in 1998, Saddam is widely believed to have retooled and restocked chemical and biological agents and brought his nuclear program back into high gear, while vastly improving his capacity to hide it all. His history of deception and game playing makes a fresh attempt to root out the arsenal in this way difficult. Saddam, says former inspector David Kay, "will always defeat a U.N.-type of inspection made up of 100 to 300 people in a country as large as Iraq...
...Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes in a jail in Sheberghan, northern Afghanistan. "We couldn't gather in large groups because that made a target. We were waiting for our comrades to tell us what to do, but there was nothing to do but hide...
...Qaeda's links to the leadership of Jamaat or Islamic Oikya Jote may be largely rhetorical. But the DGFI, Bangladesh's military intelligence service, may have more to hide. Its agents maintain contact with their counterparts in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and have a long history of supporting rebels fighting Indian rule across the border, including providing safe houses in Dhaka for the leaders of the United Liberation Front for Assam (ULFA). The HUJI source and the portworkers who saw the Mecca arrive claim that the man who greeted the new arrivals was a major in the DGFI...
...storms are terrible," he says. "Even if you have something to eat, you can't open your mouth or it just fills with sand. All you can do is hide and sleep." Shakur has given up blaming anyone for Deh Naw's troubles. He knows the landowners for whom he once worked the fields around Deh Naw are the same people who now deprive that land of water for the sake of greater profits in the hemp-rich hills. But after 23 years watching a succession of conquerors?the Soviets, the Taliban, and now the Northern Alliance and the Americans...