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Spring does funny things to this campus. It is the combination of hospitable weather and the realization that the year is running out that makes us bravely peel off excess restraint to expose our whitened goose-bumpy flesh to the changeable winds. With student excitability at its peak, campus causes emerging from their winters of discontent must seize the moment to rally for lasting change. It is the best and worst of times...
...hearing—one in a series about SEVIS held on the Hill over the course of the past year—marked a peak in a recent flurry of congressional activity questioning the efficacy of national security legislation aimed at the nation’s international student community...
...Fitness Walking for Dummies is one testament to the growing popularity of the sport. The power walking craze has also spawned new musical offerings, with genres ranging from techno versions of classical music to Baptist hymns, chosen for their ability to energize you just enough so that you peak out in that precarious state between briskly walking and jogging leisurely...
...boards every day, a precious few live on. You probably have your own personal favorites: that wild day your home team finally won the Big One; the night in Jersey when the Boss was really on; the time you wandered into some jazz joint to find Coltrane at his peak. Then there are some we might all agree on--moments that marked a new phase in the arts or new heights of athletic achievement. We offer an album of some of the great ones that took place on TIME's watch...
...linked to al-Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle from above. Ansar snipers pin down troops, their rounds pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside...