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...coming years and choose the United States’s social agenda, but the extent of that influence depends on their engagement in the present. Alan Khazei is the candidate best equipped to increase citizens’ participation and help them shape their own political futures in this nation...
Coming into the game ranked sixth in the nation on the penalty kill, Harvard’s man-down unit continued its strong play, as Kessler made two nice kick saves off shots by Minnesota’s Brittany Francis and Kelly Seeler, and the defense held the Gophers off. At the end of the first period, Minnesota had taken nine shots, compared to just five for the Crimson...
...understand Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision, it's instructive to go back to one history-shifting sentence, uttered by his predecessor more than eight years ago. It was Sept. 20, 2001. The nation was in agony, and George W. Bush stood before a joint session of Congress, telling Americans where to direct their rage. "Americans are asking, 'Who attacked our country?'" Bush declared early in his remarks. "The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...most recent attack, a suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed three Somali government ministers and at least 16 others attending a med-school graduation ceremony at a Mogadishu hotel. The Dec. 3 bombing killed several doctors and medical students, rare professional caregivers in a battered nation that needs them desperately. (Read "Suicide Bombing Marks a Grim New Turn for Somalia...
...Court Union, a radical group that controlled much of Somalia before being ousted by the Ethiopian army in a U.S.-backed invasion in 2006. (Somalia has been without a strong central government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown by warlords in 1991. Conflict in the Horn of Africa nation - one of the world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three years alone.) Al-Shabab's membership is estimated to number in the thousands; its fighters are identifiable by their red-and-white scarves. The group began fighting Ethiopian troops and the weak...