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...BARRY BONDS. Home-run inflation robbed him of some of the attention he deserved, so let's refocus: his 73 dingers for the San Francisco Giants is one of the greatest performances in baseball's long history. He also set the record for walks and slugging percentage, held by one George Herman Ruth. With Mark McGwire retired, and the great Sammy Sosa stuck in the mid-60s, this home-run record won't be broken by anyone else anytime soon...
...Taliban are misguided, vicious men, and their treatment of women is like something from the Bronze Age. But they are not personally responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. We must refocus our efforts on fighting the al-Qaeda terrorist network and help the people of Afghanistan come together and rebuild their devastated country. CAROLYN ROBERTS Santa...
...same trial, al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia. Some intelligence experts believe the failure of his terrorism campaign against the Egyptian government led him to refocus his war onto the U.S., which he hated for supporting Mubarak, the Saudi royal family and Israel. In 1996 U.S. pressure led Sudan to expel bin Laden's operation. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri returned to Afghanistan, where the ferociously ascetic brand of Islam embraced by the emergent Taliban government was perfectly congenial to them...
...university has nothing to offer the world, such calls to refocus its curriculum to society’s benefit are hard to resist. French literature and chiaroscuro have never kept the rain out, and you can’t eat the imaginary numbers. Although some developments in math and science may have occasionally brought material benefits, they are few among the fields where even remarkable progress would not bring technological advance—set theory, for example, or the study of dead languages. At best, such fields are a harmless pleasure for those engaged in them; at worst, a perverse...
Reppert recommends HUPD refocus some of its community-oriented policing resources since many of the departmetn’s outreach efforts focus on preventing theft in University buildings...