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...seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless “To an Athlete Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out / Runners whom renown outran / And the name died before the man.” By claiming Aaliyah after a mere 22 years on earth, death may have won a small victory. Ironically, though, by asserting itself overzealously and taking Aaliyah when her talent...
...heard it during the Crimson’s 6-0 rout of Vermont. It told me something: the boys are back...
Going after al Qaeda in the Philippines will be even more difficult than hunting the terrorists in Afghanistan. The 650 U.S. soldiers who have been deployed on the southern island of Basilian to help the Philippine armed forces rout the fighters of a radical Islamist group known as Abu Sayyaf are stepping onto sometimes treacherous turf. That much was made clear Wednesday in neighboring Jolo province, where three Marines of the Philippine army were killed in a firefight - by Philippine police. (The guilty policemen were former guerrillas of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim secessionist group that had been...
...State of the Union talking about the domestic picture is a sign of just how successful he has been in the war on terrorism. When he last spoke from the well of the House of Representatives, he scarcely dreamed that four months later he would return to herald the rout of the Taliban and the rise of a peaceful Afghan government. But with Osama bin Laden still at large, Bush must keep the country engaged in what promises to be a protracted, murky war on terrorism without a daily display of military progress. He won't name new countries...
...Victory over the Taliban has been more in the nature of a realignment than a rout. Many of the local commanders on whose support it had depended simply switched sides or negotiated sweet surrender deals once the writing was on the wall - for the most part their men kept their weapons, and once the American bombers had tipped the tactical balance, towns changed hands in traditional warlord horse-trading rituals rather than in pitched battles. Even though they no longer control any significant territory, the Taliban's thousands of fighters may remain an asset prized by various warlords in their...