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...moved to this country barely six months ago. One day, several police officers and a FBI agent knock on your door and ask if you wouldn't mind answering a few questions for them. It's completely voluntary, but then again, they do have guns. So they ask about where you work. Who are your roommates? Where can we find them? Could we have the phone numbers of all your family and friends? Have you or anyone you know ever been to Afghanistan...
...Most Arab and Pakistani Americans are law-abiding citizens or immigrants. But many came to this country to escape repressive regimes and they're naturally suspicious of law enforcement. When cops and federal agents knock on your door and start asking a lot of questions, it's bound to be a little unnerving. It could sound like they?re putting together a database of suspects to round up if there's another attack...
...squeezed into our chairs, taking care not to knock the Red Stripes off our neighbors’ table. The seating was intimate but lively; we shared several conversations with our fellow diners. The clientele was diverse, as were the employees...
...Though BC is the defending national champion, Eagles junior goalie Tim Kelleher had previously allowed 3.8 goals per game before shutting out the Crimson. Harvard’s dynamic first line of junior Dom Moore and sophomores Tim Pettit and Tyler Kolarik must score if Harvard is to knock off both St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
...iPod, but making tools for operating systems other than his own has never been his style. Better to hope iPod shakes up the MP3 industry the way the iMac shook up the makers of boxy beige PCs. There will probably be lots of generic cut-price, cross-platform knock-offs of the iPod by Christmas...