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...read with interest the letter titled “Bookstores, Not Publishers, To Blame For High Prices” (April 19). Textbook prices are high, but the selling price of a book begins with the publisher cost. The publisher sets the baseline cost to a retailer which includes a mark-up to cover the publisher’s costs of development, royalties, marketing, printing and a profit. The campus bookstore is a retailer and will take the publisher’s cost and add a mark-up that hopefully covers the store’s costs of ordering, receiving, selling...
...Black and White red-letter day avenged a string of 10 losses to the Tigers, dating back to May 4, 2002—a series that has included two Eastern Sprint championships and two IRA National Championships...
...FISA warrant been approved, as it would be today under a proposed change in rules, agents would have found in Moussaoui's belongings a letter signed by Sufaat, who the CIA knew was the host of the 2000 Kuala Lumpur meetings that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi attended. They would have also discovered a notebook containing the name Ahad Sabet, the alias of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who wired money to Moussaoui and was a roommate of 9/11 pilots Atta, al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. That might have enabled agents to speculate about a plot involving aircraft...
...letter was addressed to "The Men On The Mountaintops" and was laced with murderous fury. Found on the person of an al-Qaeda operative arrested in northern Iraq early this year, it pleaded for jihadists around the world to join in an effort to start a civil war in Iraq. With the handover of sovereignty to Iraqis approaching, the writer argued, "the only way to prolong the duration of the fight" was to foment conflict between the country's Sunni and Shi'ite populations and "bring the Shi'a into the battle." Though the letter was undated and unsigned...
Judging from the violence that has convulsed Iraq in the weeks since the letter was discovered, al-Zarqawi's vision is materializing. A 37-year-old Jordanian with an artificial leg and a deep scar along the side of his face, al-Zarqawi is said to be a commander of Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish guerrilla group linked to al-Qaeda, which may be behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq. But al-Zarqawi also has a wider influence. Western intelligence officials say terrorists tied to recent attacks in Casablanca, Istanbul and Madrid all had contacts with him. With...