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Gilani turned himself in to Pakistani authorities late last week in Rawalpindi, but his role, if any, in the kidnapping remains unclear. Indeed, a lack of clarity seems the only salient theme of the investigation so far. Many security experts in Pakistan doubt that the kidnappers are professionals. If the first e-mails really came from Pearl's captors, the imprecision (unclear deadlines, flip-flopping accusations) and absurdity of their demands (it's fairly well known that the U.S. does not negotiate with kidnappers) would suggest they are new to the kidnapping and terrorism business. Terry Anderson, an American reporter...
...Crimson has struggled to be a two-game-a-weekend team this year, at times combining its best and worst performances in a two-day stretch—the most salient example being Thanksgiving weekend when Harvard’s 4-2 victory over Brown was followed by a 6-0 loss to Providence a day later...
This past fall the lack of space under the jurisdiction of FAS for student group activities as well as for recreational and academic use has become an increasingly salient issue...
...Greenspan's suggestion that the worst is over made for the happy news of the day, for investors his caveat about the best being a long way off may be the more salient prediction. Because despite the recent percolations in techs from semiconductors to data storage to cell phones, there's a bit of a chill blowing across Wall Street these days. And it's already being dubbed "the Enron effect...
...plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...