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...Laden brings some particular, and collectively potent, elements to this equation. As a volunteer in the war that the Islamic rebels of Afghanistan fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowering development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sacred Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration...
Still, the Bears kept enough talent to be a potent offensive force...
...post-traumatic stress, shaken from what so recently seemed an unshakable bravura. Postings culled from websites (including this one) and newspapers? letters to the editor show a populace ready to spring into some yet to be determined course of action. What form that action takes has already become a potent point of debate. We want revenge, but we are torn by the idea of war - each "bomb the suckers back to the stone ages" email follows hard on the heels of melodramatic pleas to "let there be peace on earth...
...faces that the slowdown didn't "really" kick in until moments after Bush took the oath of office, and they delight in the opportunity provided by the shrinking surplus to accuse Republicans of raiding the Social Security trust fund and "endangering our seniors." Though intellectually suspect, it's a potent attack. Republicans returned to Congress after the recess to an internal poll that showed that voters' concern about the future of their retirement system had doubled...
Zacarian is supported by her strong defense, in which junior Katie Scott and senior Sarah Luskin stood out. The Crimson’s attack was aided by the defense’s potent clears out of Harvard’s end and several blatant steals from the Wildcats in the midfield...