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...left President Asif Ali Zardari increasingly isolated as normally fractious opposition parties unite against its "humiliating" conditions, with even the junior partners in Zardari's ruling coalition expressing misgivings. Public opinion ranges from suspicion to hostility, and the army high command broke with its recent habit of remaining quiet on political matters to issue an ominous statement. Following a meeting of its corps commanders, the army - the country's most powerful institution, long accustomed to keeping the political class in line - expressed "serious concern" over what it said were the "national security" implications of the aid package. The statement said...
Unlike the Crimson, the Crusaders have not had a hot start to their season. After losing six of its first seven games, Holy Cross has made a quiet rebound, winning its past two games against Albany and Colgate...
...QUIET ON THE COLLEGE FRONT
...some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation. Nor does Zazi appear to be a lone sympathizer or a copycat egged on by an FBI informant. He apparently had marching orders, accomplices and a quiet determination to deliver a stunning blow. In all these respects, Zazi resembles the al-Qaeda bombers who attacked the London subway in 2005. Indeed, if the charges against him prove true, Zazi was the recruit al-Qaeda had long sought: entirely legal, completely acculturated, seemingly innocuous. In his utter ordinariness...
Despite his quiet disposition, he clearly enjoyed the pressure of the Friday night lights...