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...most of the time the age gap between the senior and underclassman is less than three years. There are only two places such an age gap is significant: college and a nursing home. Before and after our Harvard careers we have and will probably associate with people from ages seven to seventy who are at very different stages of life from us. Therefore, the lack of such age diversity at college is not just bizarre, but also potentially dangerous. It causes us to lose perspective on superficial issues—no, you can’t have pizza for three...
Tetreault brought the deficit to seven with an unassisted score 1:03 later...
...invasion, if Karzai is to survive the departure of Western forces, he will have to reinvent himself as a national leader with an independent power base. He's obviously determined not to go the way of Mohammad Najibullah, the former Soviet-backed leader who was executed by the Taliban seven years after the Red Army withdrew. So from Karzai's point of view, he's pushing back against the U.S. not only because he can, but also because he must if he is to survive politically. (See "Karzai Talks to the Enemy, but Is the U.S. On Board...
...attack - which left at least seven people dead, including four militants but no Americans - marked a departure from the Taliban's more frequent prey, Pakistani military and intelligence officials and facilities. "Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks," Reuters quoted Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq as saying. (See "The Taliban's Low-Tech Defense Against U.S. Drones...
...campaign of terrorism against sensitive targets. On March 31, a militant identified as Qari Hussein - considered the head of the Taliban's squad of suicide bombers - told the English-language daily Dawn that the Taliban would "refresh memories of the attack on the Khost base" in Afghanistan, which left seven CIA agents dead. (See TIME columnist Robert Baer's assessment of the damage to the CIA after the Khost attack...