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...most honored secular institution, with a reputation for ruthless efficiency and impregnability. That almost mythic image suffered a heavy blow last week, with the revelation that the army had a spy in its senior ranks. Lieut. Colonel Omar al-Hayeb, a Bedouin Arab from a well-known tribe in northern Israel, was remanded by a Tel Aviv court on charges he traded secrets to the Lebanese fundamentalist group Hizballah for a lucrative role in the drug route across the Lebanon-Israel border. Officials said Al-Hayeb passed on maps, details about sensitive intelligence facilities and personal information about senior officers...
Tucked away in a remote village in mountainous northern Bali, 23-year-old Rimbawa attempts to remember the disaster that changed his life. He gently strokes his arm, wrapped in a grubby bandage that protects the third-degree burns beneath, and stares into the middle distance where his mother and two sisters are busy preparing banana-leaf offerings for a Hindu cleansing ceremony. Minutes pass. Tears well in his eyes. Then slowly, painfully, Rimbawa rises from his seat on the stone step in front of the family home and shuffles into his bedroom. The interview is over. Not a single...
...Crimson will host the Northern Championships the following weekend, but the team is focused most on the Eastern Championships...
Harvard hasn’t lost since an 11-3 setback to No. 13 UC-Santa Barbara and No. 5 USC on Oct. 6. The Crimson’s strong CWPA finish secured the No. 2 seed in the Northern Division playoffs in two weeks...
...School of Government at Harvard. "There can be no knockout, just a victory on points," he says - a surprising admission from a man tipped by Israeli military analysts as a favorite to become the army's Chief of Staff in five to 10 years. Born on a kibbutz in northern Israel, Tibon lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters. His is the difficult life of a soldier, often away from his family for weeks at a time, because his "basic belief is that Israel is in the middle of a 100-year war." Tibon prosecutes that...