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...particularly amorous applicant, who confessed to feeling full of “that gooey sap you feel late at night” whenever he thought of his dream alma mater. Some students thought it was clever, others found it apalling, and some wanted to cry because it made them think their own essays weren't original enough...
...former governor of Alaska is still peddling her mega-selling memoir, Going Rogue, and racking up lucrative speaking engagements. Now she's adding a revenue stream as a paid analyst on the conservative national soapbox. Even before she made her Jan. 12 debut with Bill O'Reilly, the latest round of America's favorite parlor game, What Does Sarah Want?, was in full swing. Is Palin's television gig a sign that she is abandoning her political career and all 2012 aspirations? Or is Fox News meant to serve as the ideal launching pad for an eventual presidential bid fueled...
...Made in the U.S.A. So who is this man whom U.S. counterterrorism officials would like to see dead? Just like bin Laden, al-Awlaki comes from an influential family: one of his relatives is Prime Minister of Yemen, and his father Nasser al-Awlaki was Agriculture Minister and head of the country's biggest university. Like bin Laden, al-Awlaki is soft-spoken, mild-mannered and austere...
...Diego, intelligence officials say, was also where al-Awlaki first made contact with jihadists. He was on the board of a charity run by a Yemeni associate of bin Laden; the FBI has said the charity was a fundraising front for al-Qaeda. Officials also say al-Awlaki met with a close associate of Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik" behind the 1993 attempt to bomb New York City's World Trade Center...
...home in Hamburg of Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni who was a leading figure in the 9/11 plot, German authorities found al-Awlaki's phone number. The FBI questioned the cleric but didn't have enough information to arrest him. In March 2002, he left the U.S. for Yemen. He made one final trip to the U.S. in October of that year and was briefly detained at New York City's JFK airport, but the FBI's attempt to arrest him on the charge of giving false information in a passport application came to nothing. After leaving the U.S., he spent...