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...Things went wrong almost immediately. Once inside Qala-i-Jangi, the Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...
...Peabody staff member said Wiley had been given a handmade American flag pin made out of beads and safety pins that night, and that he planned to wear it the next day at the conference’s closing session...
...Things went wrong almost immediately. Once inside Qala-i-Jangi, the Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...
Posting students’ individual outcomes online and providing students with pin numbers to access their Harvard admission accounts will afford students the opportunity to determine their status as soon as possible. While it is unfortunate that applicants are in such a hurry for their decisions, instant gratification is the reality of our age. Immediate access to the information online may only eliminate the two or three day “snail mail” waiting period, not the months of anxiety; nonetheless, those days will provide applicants with several important opportunities. Some early applicants wait for a decision before...
...among her final choices. Knowing Ruggiero wasn’t a deciding factor in her decision to attend Harvard, as she had national team teammates and friends, such as Princeton’s Andrea Kilbourne and Annamarie Holmes, at other schools. Chu said she couldn’t quite pin down why she chose to attend Harvard...