Word: ladenism
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...week. P.D. lives on the Upper East Side, which he says is one of the only four neighborhoods that exist in Manhattan. (The others are the Upper West Side, Midtown, and the Village.) Most days, P.D. dresses like he is going sailing. Pastel shirts, pastel pants, and sailboat-laden belts are the staples of his wardrobe. He went to prep school, he explained, apparently surprised that others didn't automatically understand. Everyone dressed like that at prep school...
Perhaps, compared to the burden of his numeral-laden name, the Feds on his tail seem like nothing. —Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Adams House...
...produced a report saying that bin Laden has long-term kidney disease and may have only months to live, two U.S. officials familiar with the report told TIME. The agency ostensibly managed to get the names of some of the medications bin Laden is taking. One U.S. official familiar with the report, which came out between six and nine months ago, says it concluded, "Based on his current pharmaceutical intake, [we] would expect that he has no more than six to 18 months to live and impending kidney failure...
...Pillar, former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University. Says Frances Fragos Townsend, who stepped down last November as chief of President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Council, "I've read all the same conflicting reports [on bin Laden's health] that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another...
...Laden really is dying, the news would doubtless be greeted with some ambivalence. On the one hand, his demise is what the U.S. government has been fervently trying to hasten - since before 9/11. But death by kidney disease is not exactly what it had in mind. "Wouldn't that be a tragic situation if, with all this effort, bin Laden died without it happening at the hands of coalition forces?" says one current senior counterterrorism official. Given the reliability of past long-distance diagnoses, however, and the continuing threat al-Qaeda poses around the world, that may be the least...