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Many upperclass students made the trek over to the Yard, including the boisterous members of Mather House who held a “war rally” against Kirkland House as the opening salvo in their recently declared “House...
...Administration is making the case that the Iraq war scared Libya into submission, a politically handy retort to Democratic charges that the Iraq adventure has been a mistake. Bush's aides have pointedly noted that Gaddafi initiated contact on March 19, as the first salvo of missiles rained down on Baghdad. And as the search for weapons of mass destruction continues to come up virtually empty in Iraq--top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay says he may quit as head of the effort--Bush can at least claim credit for having neutralized one nation's WMD threat...
With the assemblage of talent massed across the river from Harvard yard, the opening salvo this weekend should be quite a sight...
...accounts, al Qaeda was a vast and powerful organization, benefiting from sophisticated command structures and substantial financial resources. Despite these capabilities, however, al Qaeda did not press the offensive—a strategic decision, not a tactical blunder. The Sept. 11 attacks were not intended to be an opening salvo in a sustained campaign against the U.S. homeland. They were intended to elicit a military-political response from the United States that would be perceived by the moderate peoples of the Middle East as an attack on Islam itself, thereby galvanizing support for the creation of Muslim theocracies...
...traveling, a hard-boiled soft-cover can be just the ticket. If you're not traveling, you'll want novels that can transport you. Here are some recent paperback mysteries from far and near that are worth investigating THE TERRA-COTTA DOG Andrea Camilleri (Penguin) Sicilian inspector Salvo Montalbano follows the trail of a supermarket heist to a cave where two young bodies lay, dead since World...