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...Laden's role has always been that of facilitator. That was his function in the 'Islamist International' formed, with the active encouragement of the CIA and Egyptian and Saudi intelligence, to recruit volunteers to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. His considerable wealth (and ability to raise funds from others) and his organizational expertise played a key role in helping the "Arab Afghans," as the volunteers became known, play a creditable role in the war against the Soviets. And once that war was won, he continued to play the same role, keeping its veterans together and maintaining an infrastructure...
...Another Afghan jihad graduate also turned up: bomber Ramzi Yousef. Philippine police sources believe Yousef may have tried to recruit Abu Sayyaf for two bloody schemes in 1995: the assassination of Pope John Paul II in Manila and a plan to plant bombs on U.S. airliners flying out of the Philippines. Plagued throughout his terrorist career by clumsiness, Yousef managed to set fire to his apartment just a week before the Pontiff's arrival, and police found timing devices, 12 fake passports and a business card belonging to bin Laden's brother-in-law, Khalifa. There is no evidence, local...
...Botterill, Ruggiero, and a new U.S. National Team recruit Julie Chu all intend to suit up for the Crimson. During the last post-Olympic season, Harvard rolled to a national title. The Crimson's most dominant season in history might still be yet to come...
...Well, maybe not out of nowhere. Harvard started the season ranked No. 17 in the nation. The Crimson boasted an incoming freshman class that was ranked 19th in the nation to go along with the seventh-best recruit class from a year before. So don't be fooled-there was plenty of promise attached to this group from the beginning...
...marketplace, education and business are harder and harder to separate. For this school year, Paramount budgeted $5,000 for advertising and $6,000 for textbooks. Even as the school was freezing funds for new supplies, Paramount principal Bud Garrett had to send his teachers door-to-door to recruit new pupils. "We scrambled big time," explains Garrett, "flyering and advertising until we got up to 140." While Garrett and his staff were out fishing for students, Cline was hard at work on another venture: a second Paramount campus in nearby Peoria, where he says there are "better market opportunities...