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Investigators keen to gain insight into active cells aren?t terribly interested in the activities of publicists like Qatada and al-Siri, though. They want to hear details from the far less loquacious detainees, and so far they?re not hearing much of immediate value. According to a Belgian official, when police asked Nizar Trabelsi - the ex-footballer arrested on Sept. 13 for his alleged role in a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris - why he had a Uzi submachine pistol in his Brussels apartment, he cited "sentimental reasons." Key prisoners like Bensakhria and the once talkative Beghal...
...further support the candidacy of Ethridge A. King. While a newcomer to Cambridge politics, King is approaching his campaign with a refreshing degree of professionalism. His time as assistant director of development at Boston University gives him an important viewpoint and a keen understanding of the constraints and challenges faced by university administrators. He has advanced concrete and realistic proposals to alleviate the city’s affordable housing crunch, including incentive programs for contractors to build mixed-income developments as well as city-backed low-interest loans to low-income homebuyers. His financial experience in development work...
...famous words about his life at Harvard, Du Bois might say that the anthology is of Harvard, but not in it. Yet having devoted as much of his life to higher education as he did to the accurate narration of African-American history, Du Bois would have listened with keen interest to the publishing history of Blacks at Harvard...
...Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild dispute?had keen killed in a strike on the eastern village of Karam. And on Saturday the Pentagon confirmed that a smart bomb dropped from an F-18 had missed its target at a Kabul airfield and hit a civilian neighborhood. U.S. officials estimated that four may have died...
...book combines anecdotes from her experiences as a reporter with keen analysis of a system gone awry. In one account, she relates how a 30-second game of catch between Michael Dukakis and an aide became a reportable moment, one that the media could use to epitomize the down-to-earth tenacity of the then-presidential candidate. “What we had on the tarmac…was an understanding: a repeated moment witnessed by many people, all of whom believed it to be a setup and yet most of whom believed that only an outsider, only someone...