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Even though I love them, they are haunting in my dreams. When I see grizzlies in the northwestern Montana forest up here, in real life, it is more exhilarating than frightening. After the bear has seen or heard or scented me and galloped away in alarm, a feeling of awe remains. Almost always the bears run away. Sometimes if they feel that they don't have an escape route, they will bluff charge, veering away hard at the last yard, the last foot, the last inch. I don't know why they are so much more frightening in my dreams...
...someone who was arrested well outside a "war zone" (as defined by traditional rules of war, anyway) should Padilla be treated as a suspected criminal? Douglas Cassel, director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University Law School, thinks so. "Charges should be brought, a trial should be scheduled, and he should be allowed to see a lawyer," Cassel says. "They're maintaining they can hold him for the duration of the war on terror - which could easily be years, or even decades - without ever charging him with a crime...
After graduating from the College, Hennessy worked for a Cambridge technology company for several years and then attended Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University...
Harvard blew away the competition to open up the spring, going 5-0 early against some top national opposition. The Crimson’s first loss did not come until mid-March, when it suffered a 5-2 defeat at home to Northwestern...
...Thanks to over-zealous Afghan recruiters, many had only a vague idea what they were signing up for. Private Shamsuddin, a square-jawed 22-year-old ex-tractor driver from the northwestern province of Faryab, left home with dreams of foreign travel and what by Afghan standards counts as serious money. "They told us we'd be getting $250 a month and that training would be in Turkey," he says. Shamsuddin has since discovered he's actually making $30 a month ($50 once he's completed training) and the only bright lights he gets to see once a week...