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...focused on the ones who got away, chief among them Osama bin Laden, Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and, according to an Afghan intelligence official, "99% of the hard-core leadership" of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. But if Tirin Kot is any indication, most of the Taliban rank and file are not in hiding. They are back in their hometowns, farming, opening shops in the bazaar or just looking for work. The intelligence official estimates there "could be as many as 10,000, maybe more." Where? "Man, just look around you," says Steve, a member...
Despite posting the lowest graduation rate, faculty resources rank, admissions rate, and alumni giving percentage, Yale tied Harvard for second on the strength of its per-student spending, placing second nationally. Harvard ranked tenth and Princeton was number...
That year, Harvard fell from the top faculty resources rank to number 11, while Duke climbed from number 13 to number four...
...Standing in the way, however, is a workforce that is among the most militant and anti-American in Asia. Daewoo's union leaders battled desperately to thwart the takeover, fearing it would spell job losses, pay cuts and other setbacks for the rank and file. Workers picketed GM's Seoul sales office on and off for more than a year and rioted outside Daewoo's Bupyeong plant near Seoul. The unionists even dispatched a mission to GM's U.S. headquarters to persuade executives to back off. The anger persists. GM is "a multinational, imperialist company," declares Kim Il Seob...
This was a beautiful house," says Khalil Rahman Nasimi, standing in the ruins that were once his home. "It was the house of a colonel"?his former rank in the Northern Alliance?"the house of an important man." Around him are mere remains: the suggestion of walls, the barest hint of an orderly life. Khoshal Khan A, a street in western Kabul, was once prestigious real estate. Now it is rubble. The street was destroyed during the Afghan civil wars that raged from 1992 to 1996. Khalil and his family fled after the first rocket hit and a succession...