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...thrill ride can range from navigating among the financial sharks in New York City to tracking down the biological secrets of binobo chimps in the darkest rain forest. For Karin J. Alexander ‘02, a social studies concentrator in Lowell House, adventure was getting attacked by a lion in her homeland, Zimbabwe...
...turn to see a young lion, not more than hip height from the ground-stalking me...I’m vaguely panicked at this point,” says Karin Jane Alexander `02, who was conducting thesis research this summer. Karin and her fiance, Adam, were invited to tea with a distant relative who runs a wildlife orphanage outside of Bulawayo, a large city in the south of the country. Karin stepped out of the car to open the gate, and Adam continued driving up a long driveway. Karin closed the gate behind her, began to wander through a garden...
Knowing that if she ran, the lion would think she were prey, she walked quickly, wishing the house were closer than 500 meters away. The lion picked up speed and growled in a “low guttural manner.” “Next thing I know, I’m on the floor, face down-with something patting my head quite vigorously,” says Karin. Meanwhile, Adam and her relative watched with amusement from the comfort of the house. Adam stayed calm once the relative (who in the past was nearly eaten...
Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the "Lion of Panjshir," Ahmed Shah Massoud, revered commander of the anti-Taliban forces, assassinated two days before the attacks on the U.S. Yet the loose collection of Northern Alliance fighters now calling themselves the United Front, who have doggedly held their narrowing ground for five years, are filled with high hope. American bombs are coming. America will help them win the victory they couldn't win themselves...
...Bush administration officials have stressed the long-term nature of the war against terrorism, which is precisely what makes maintaining the coalition so essential - because direct military action plays only a minor role in such a conflict, the lion's share of which is waged at the political, diplomatic, intelligence, law enforcement and financial levels. And the trick, in which Secretaries Rumsfeld and Powell, Prime Minister Blair and a host of others are heavily engaged right now, is to ensure that whatever military action is taken doesn't throw the rest of the project off balance...