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...state his views on the hotly debated issues of the day. Former president Neil L. Rudenstine rarely used his position as president of Harvard to address such matters. We agree with Summers’ message, and we hope he continues to speak his mind on issues of national import...
...those who snagged it on import, Since I Left You was undoubtedly the soundtrack to the summer. As an anonymous voice puts it, “Welcome to Paradise”—a tour-de-force of variations on “happy,” it compels you to discard your troubles and obligations and simply enjoy the moment. Also present is a more elusive touch of nostalgia which lingers long after one stops listening. This isn’t the stilted soul typically employed by dance subgenres in need of validation (deep house, atmospheric jungle...
...large farm owned by the company was used for training courses in explosives. The witness also said that Salim, who allegedly received a monthly salary of $1,500, helped run bin Laden's Al Hijra Construction company, which ostensibly built roads and bridges but also had a permit to import explosives for construction use. The same witness said that Salim took him on a trip to a chemical-warfare-training facility in Sudan and was a critical link in the negotiations for an attempted $1.5 million purchase of South African uranium...
...just want to kill people, including, it turns out, Gaddafi Sr. "They tried, many times, to assassinate the Leader," he writes. Seif is brandishing an olive branch even as the U.S. extends sanctions against his father's regime. He says that Libya longs to send students to American universities, import U.S. wheat and medicine, invest in the lucrative oil and gas sectors and work with Washington to combat poverty and disease in Africa. "It is time we turned a new leaf," he says. The main obstacle is Libya's refusal to admit involvement in the 1988 bombing...
...temperatures became erratic. What water remained was a concentrated cocktail of salt, minerals and pesticide runoff from the cotton fields upstream. Moynaq, the nearest town, watched its livelihood drain away with the parting Aral. The former bustling port used to can 70 million tins of fish a year and import millions of tons of grain and coal. Now Moynaq's fleet lies beached in the desert just outside town, 100 km from the shore, its masts rusted sentinels in a fog of dust. The town is desiccated and almost deserted. The 2,000 people who remain strip the ship hulks...