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...peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make their peace with the authorities. But with Maskhadov gone, Basayev could become even more influential. And the war is increasingly being waged not by fighters in forests, but by jamaat - small mobile groups loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Martyr | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

Dosed with morphine three times a day, Bozik has long red scars from more than 20 surgeries, is making slow progress with his prostheses, often falls asleep at 3 p.m. because of his agonizing and exhausting physical therapy, and won't be able to leave Walter Reed for many more months. He has pins and plates in all three stumps and in his remaining left arm, plus a lifelong elevated risk of arthritis, back and heart problems. But he's alive and thanks God every day for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...Riding a five-game winning streak entering the Dodge Holiday Classic, Harvard’s lineup was crippled by the flu and subsequently managed only a 0-0 tie against Northern Michigan before a stunning upset loss at the hands of Merrimack. Regardless, the Crimson can ill-afford a slow start against the Saints, who scored 11 goals last weekend and will look to slide right into their up-tempo offense from the opening faceoff...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bye Allows Wounded M. Hockey To Recover For Playoff Run | 3/11/2005 | See Source »

...pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized by one soldier as guaranteed to “slow the shrapnel down so that it stays in your body instead of going clean through it?...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Gunner Palace | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

This is still good, although way too old to be number seven on anything. Not that seven is too old. But you see what I mean about the Billboard charts moving slow as molasses...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rap's Top Ten Breakdown | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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