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...looks beyond Afghanistan for its next target in the war on terror, one part of the world that has received relatively scant attention is South America. But U.S. intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly worried about a nest of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized-crime figures who have taken up residence in South America's tri-border area, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. "It's like the Wild West there," says a Pentagon official. "Crime, religious extremism and politics are all linked under the table." For several years the CIA has had a team of agents monitoring terrorists from Hizballah...
...here I sit, a scant six months away from graduation, and I know, I mean really know, about a dozen people on this campus. That’s about 0.75 percent of my class, worse than most medical school admissions rates. In fact, I know almost no one outside my concentration, and only a scant sampling from within...
...becomes scarily routine. This happened when her toddler Nicholas stopped reflexively asking for his father and started hugging people other than her. At first Nicole thought this was a sign he was adjusting, but then the worry set in. Would Nicholas' two-year-old mind begin to lose scant recollections of his father? "So now I just keep saying to him, 'Remember when Daddy used to do this or that,'" she says. And when they talk about Greg, Nicholas now blows kisses...
...journey from Harvard Yard to Washington Square began in the mid-1980s. In 1985, Harvard’s Afro-American studies program was facing one of its greatest challenges since the dramatic founding of the department in 1969. The administration had, by many accounts, abandoned the department: funding was scant and there were few concentrators. That fall, civil rights activist Roger Wilkins, who was overseeing a newly-formed external review committee, met with Afro-American studies concentrators and graduate students affiliated with the program. “What should University Hall hear?” he asked. Students spoke compellingly...
...nimble performance, helped by the fact that few burdens weigh him down. Blair faces scant political opposition; his staff is a tiny band of veterans; and his campaign to win hearts and minds around the world, including instant rebuttals of bin Laden on Arab TV, follows a groove worn deep in the relentless political campaigns of New Labour. Britons wonder if "President Blair" is getting so engrossed in global architecture that he'll flub his promise to fix rotten schools and hospitals at home. But the mounting complaints before Sept. 11 about his sanctimony, slickness and control freakery have been...