Word: kill
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...It’s Ivies, so this is when it really counts,” Vertovez said. “Come this weekend, we’re going to want to kill Yale...
...last senior housing lottery number and still ended up with ‘n + 1/2’ housing,” says one anonymous senior, who offers a solution to fellow residents who find themselves without luck. “You can always kill a roommate.” Dunsterites have more to fear than just a long walk to and from the Yard. The infamous and supposedly haunted room H-21, the rumored site of a 1995 murder-suicide, makes Dunster the campus’ spookiest residence. However, most loyal residents are able to sleep soundly...
...Niazamuddin was willing to lead a search, that would provide an example of solid leadership in a town riven by extremist sympathies. But Niazamuddin had gone back on his offer. If members of the Taliban found out he had led the Americans to suspicious houses, he said, they would kill him. The operation's leader, 1st Lieut. Glenn Burkey, exploded with frustration. U.S. forces had taken gunfire from the village several times, and previous house searches had turned up weapons, explosives and even a Taliban flag. Yet repeated raids risked alienating residents further. Burkey needed the elder's help...
...that comparatively limited objective at this stage will require a massive and sustained U.S. Commitment - one that involves more than military boots on the ground. Al-Qaeda still thrives in the ungoverned tribal areas along the border between the two countries, and while many of its members have been killed, new recruits quickly take their place. U.S. soldiers have learned that to deny al-Qaeda a foothold in Afghanistan will require the establishment of a government that Afghans can believe in, the security that allows them to support it and jobs that provide an alternative to fighting...
...Although the more than 80 witnesses and 500 documents submitted to the tribunal offered no smoking-gun evidence of direct orders to the Colina Group death squad by Fujimori, Judge Cesar San Martin concluded there was "no question" that Fujimori had sanctioned the killings during massacres in 1991 and '92 as well as the '92 kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Goritti and businessman Samuel Dyer. "There is never a written order to forcibly disappear and kill someone," says Cromwell Castillo, whose son Ernesto Paez was killed in 1990. "[But] the circumstances have demonstrated that Fujimori not only knew but sanctioned...