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...been some Americans--or longtime residents of the U.S.--connected to al-Qaeda. For years there have been rumors of Americans in the Afghan terrorist camps, and an American, originally from Georgia, is reported to have died in 1998 while fighting with Islamic militias in Kashmir. But with the salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though Pakistani officials insist they...
...What I have made clear to each of the schools is that this is so salient and large an opportunity that, while we have not made any decision about how [the land] will be used, all major planning decisions from this point forward will have to contemplate how they will work out under different scenarios for Allston,” Summers said last summer...
When Fox announced the plan in January 1977, he highlighted five salient problems with the system—the inequities between Houses’ locations and gender distributions, the unpopularity of the Quad Houses, the differences in housing and advising between first-years, some upperclass students’ distance from their Houses and unfair lottery procedures...
...Numbers is entertaining and full of suspense, it is too political. Starring Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a character too engineered to seem realistic, the movie is a crime thriller about two boys who believe they have engineered the perfect murder. And without the cutthroat Mayweather’s salient intuition prompting her to suspect the boys, they most surely would have escaped...
...City,” and Krinsky herself, swept off the face of the Earth in a raging moral whirlwind of righteousness. Krinsky, however, treats her naysayers as almost an afterthought. She casually informed me that the conservative Yale Free Press (Yale’s answer to the Salient) had recently assessed her as “giving syphilis a bad name...