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...Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide in plain sight too. And no one was eager to underestimate their cunning again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Insecurity | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...After a long night drinking, Carl Y. Sampson ‘02 stumbled back to Lev and passed out in front of his entryway. A kindly neighbor, the plain-faced Rita J. Harris ‘03, brought him in from the cold, propping him on her shoulder up three flights of stairs. Sampson—super-drunk, confused and mean—thought that she wanted to come in and hook up, so he proceeded to barricade the door against her. He fell asleep next to the door, and woke the next morning when the chair he?...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...Pakistan, for example, which will bear the brunt of the refugee load, has always been a reluctant partner in a war it had hoped would be brief and surgical. It is now increasingly plain that this will be neither, and the incident last week in which a U.S. Special Forces helicopter took ground fire near a base inside Pakistan highlighted the potential domestic crisis General Musharraf faces for offering his support. Not surprisingly, the general is urging the U.S. to end its bombing campaign by Ramadan. The same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Deal With Afghanistan's Humanitarian Crisis? | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...problem with final clubs goes to the very nature of Harvard’s social life. Students do not arrive at Harvard in a state of nature, drafting the social contract on a flat plain unencumbered by existing institutions. One need only look at a Cambridge cit y assessor’s map to realize how much of Harvard Square has already been carved up into private holdings...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's Wrong With Final Clubs | 10/23/2001 | See Source »

...that may help eventually capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, and to accelerate the collapse of the Taliban regime by signaling to its fighters that the fundamentalist militia is unable to protect its territory from U.S. attack. By the array of forces it has assembled around Afghanistan, it is plain that the U.S. is not planning to launch a full-blown invasion, instead focusing on expanded special operations of the type seen around Kandahar over the weekend. The infantry, in any ground war against the Taliban, remain the troops of the opposition Northern Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Onward to Kabul (Or at Least its Outer Suburbs) | 10/23/2001 | See Source »

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