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...time, hunting al-Zarqawi and his senior aides was the primary responsibility of a secretive special-operations task force whose number designation changed constantly (it was recently called Task Force 145). It was made up of military intelligence operatives, counterterrorism commandos of the Delta Force, and the Navy's SEAL Team 6, plus Army Rangers. Although the task force had helped capture Saddam in December 2003, the search for al-Zarqawi proved more frustrating. In late 2004, Iraq security forces caught him near the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, but the al-Qaeda leader was able to talk...
...electrics alike, were all on the verge of extinction. Apple and Commodore and Radio Shack had already started selling small computers to consumers, but it was the release of the IBM PC in the summer of 1981, shortly after my class’s graduation, that would not only seal the fate of a century’s worth of writing technology but also instigate a flood of social changes that are still unfolding around...
...high risk of facing enemy fire. Now women are excluded from only 9% of Army roles (though that represents nearly 30% of active-duty positions); 99% of all occupations and positions in the Air Force are open to women, and in the Navy, women are excluded from only SEAL teams and submarines...
...Eastern Sprints titles, the Harvard varsity heavyweights relinquished their EARC dominance to No. 1 Princeton on a turbulent day at Lake Quinsigamond. A dramatic come-from-behind win for Harvard’s No. 1 second varsity, coupled with a third-place finish for the Crimson freshman eight, helped seal Harvard’s 27th Rowe Cup.Thunderstorms and rainfall suspended the lightweight and heavyweight varsity races for over an hour, and fans took cover in the course boathouse as violent storms rolled in during the early afternoon. “We were just getting ready to start and a huge...
...Democratic allegations of racism may sound like just another political ploy, but there certainly is a case to be made that racial fears are informing some of the debate on immigration policy. The political demand to seal the U.S.-Mexico border, and the President's new proposal to send 6,000 members of the National Guard to help do that, is nominally based on national security. But why then is no one proposing sending additional National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Canada border? Don't laugh. Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium Bomber, was caught at the Canadian border...