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After being named the Gatorade Player of the Year in Minnesota while leading Breck High School to the Class ‘B’ state championship, Hoffman was successfully wooed to Northwestern by then-head coach Gary Barnett...
...Capturing the northern city whose population numbers somewhere between 150,000 and 700,000 may be the key to breaking the Taliban's supply lines in the north and facilitating the Northern Alliance's reclaiming of much of northwestern Afghanistan. It would potentially also allow the U.S. a foothold deep inside Afghanistan to help wage war further south. But it is the psychological impact of taking it before winter that may be most important: Mazar-i-Sharif was the last major domino to fall to the Taliban in its conquest of Afghanistan, and its recapture by the opposition would signal...
...people swore they had seen crew members leave the space shuttle before takeoff. We are currently seized by the same phenomenon but of an unprecedented order of magnitude. "People are looking for certainty, and they don't care where they get it," says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the study of rumors. "They would rather know something for sure, even if that thing for sure is wrong, because it provides them a sense of stability...
...late, the Taliban's major support has come from Pakistan, a self-declared Islamic republic in which Islamic radicals--who want to end Indian rule in Kashmir--have become increasingly influential. On roads in northwestern Pakistan that border Afghanistan, signs advertise training camps run by jihadis: FIGHT IN THE WAY OF ALLAH, FREE COMMANDO TRAINING. Any substantial action against Afghanistan would need Pakistani cooperation. That's why the crucial meeting last week was between Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Mahmoud Ahmad, the head of the powerful Pakistani InterServices Intelligence department, who was visiting Washington. A senior Administration official...
...Pakistan is deeply ambivalent about its new and unsought role in the war against terrorism - and nowhere is this more clear than in Peshawar, the country's main frontier town on the way to Afghanistan. The people of the Northwestern Frontier are as famous for their ferocity in battle as they are for their hospitality to strangers. On the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, one hour's drive from the border, Peshawar has fought wars and suffered invasions for over 2,000 years. Now as Pakistan braces for the expected U.S. attacks on Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar...