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...wondered if being Muslim made me a ripe target for these baseless accusations. After all, the suicide bombers have all been Muslim. And sadly, anti-Semitism—the most despicable European export—is on the rise in Muslim countries...
Tran Van Ngoc was walking to school the first time he saw the planes trailing clouds of white fog. The 16-year-old stopped to watch as the American aircraft circled his village and the mist settled to earth. "It smelled sweet, like ripe guava," he recalls. It was a routine repeated every morning for a year, and soon the village got used to it?just as they got used to a barren landscape, with tree leaves turning black and branches withering...
...capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from Jalalabad and other places were able to move in with them, so many are there now." Whether or not bin Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought by the U.S., is thought to be hiding in Pakistan; Latif Mansour, the former Taliban Minister for Agriculture; and Saifur Rahman Mansoor, Latif's nephew, a former Taliban military commander in his early...
...explanation that this doesn’t have anything to do with PSLM?) In the wake of a continuing movement for higher wages, despite Summers’ general acceptance of the Katz Committee’s wage recommendations for the University, the atmosphere was just starting to look ripe for Occupation: The Sequel...
...unusual in the technology world in that they are basically commodity products—with Intel and Microsoft controlling the technological innovation, the “box makers” like Compaq and Dell have little basis on which to differentiate their products. In a sagging economy, conditions are ripe for a devastating price war and a consolidation of the industry, which we have in fact seen in the last year. Two of the major players—Hewlett Packard and Compaq—are doing everything wrong in response to this situation, while two of the others?...