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Some 53,000 refugees are crammed into the Shamshatoo Afghan Refugee Camp in northwest Pakistan. Jamal (Jamal Udin Torabi) and his pal Enayat (Enayatullah) want to reduce that number by two. The teens' plan is to reach London, where Enayat has an uncle, by any means necessary: guile, smugglers, bribes. That border guard has a suspicious look?give him your Walkman...
...story of the Tornariti begins in Groton, Mass., a little town about an hour northwest of Boston, just a few miles shy of the New Hampshire border. It was here that the Tornariti legend began, as the two came to dominate the sports scene for years, propelling their high school to two state titles in soccer and a state finals appearance in basketball...
...police had been tipped off by suspicious parents, but even so they weren't entirely prepared for what awaited them in a hotel room in the quiet spa town of Leamington, 160 km northwest of London. As they raided one day in August, stepping over the rubber stockings, condoms and sex-aid brochures found scattered about the room's floor, the cops found a 14-year-old girl who'd been enticed there for illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had corresponded frequently in the poorly policed realm of the Microsoft Network's Internet chat...
...operations. It's not an operational base and not a strategic asset. Terrorists may be coming in, but it's very temporary. Operational leaders of terrorist groups confine themselves to places where there is a congenial government or sufficient lawlessness, like the hinterlands of Afghanistan, the Northwest Frontier province in Pakistan and, increasingly, in places like Iran, a mecca for terrorists. That's not the case in Iraq because of the American presence but also because Iraq has an increasingly robust system of local governance. It has a central government that is growing in power, it has any number...
...said that HLS would “surely need to expand its northwest corner,” in the near future, regardless of whether the school stays in Cambridge or moves to Allston...