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...core of men around Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are at the very least anxious about what may be coming their way. Their announcement on Saturday morning, for instance, that they would consider releasing eight Christian missionaries held on charges of spreading religious doctrine, seemed to some a slight tremble of nerves. "If [the U.S.] stops issuing threats," a Taliban communique said, "we will take steps for the release of the eight foreigners...
Councillor Kathleen L. Born, one of two current councillors not seeking reelection this year, said that unlike some other councillors she talked to at the installation’s reception, she didn’t perceive a slight in Summers’s speech. Instead, she said she found it “inspiring...
...truth, though, is that while terrorism experts and Harvard officials admit that Harvard is at risk, all agree that the chance of an attack is a very slight one. Nonetheless, that has not stopped the University from stepping up police patrols and reexamining safety across campus—from Holyoke Center to Widener Library to Hillel...
West drew some of his strongest crowd reaction when he expressed a slight indignation over politicians’ sudden infatuation with spending in the wake of the attacks...
...mile 24, nearing the end, past lunch at Wellesley and the miles of Heartbreak Hill and the interminable length of Brookline, those mile-marker posters take on what Amie calls “an almost totemic significance” for the walkers, who’ve now developed a slight stagger and are trying, less and less successfully, to drain the pooling blood from their hands. But mile 25 will be next, and then 26–and from there it’s only 0.2 miles to the tents and music and mylar “space blankets?...