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...with those who use violence. But in recent years, as innocents have been killed from Karachi to Islamabad, it has become clear that it is the Pakistani people who are the most endangered by extremism. Public opinion has turned. The Pakistani army has waged an offensive in Swat and South Waziristan. And there is no doubt that the United States and Pakistan share a common enemy...
...continent's most famous exploration, however, remains the race to the South Pole in the early 1900s between British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Using 52 sled dogs and with four companions, Amundsen won the race - making it to the pole after a near two-month journey on Dec. 19, 1911. It took until nearly March for the team to reach Tasmania where they could send a telegram to let the rest of the world know of their feat. Scott later arrived on Jan. 17, 1912, just a month after Amundsen, but his entire team...
Speaking in Soweto—a city symbolic of the struggle against apartheid after protesting schoolchildren were brutally gunned down there in 1976—President Faust emphasized the importance of education in civil rights struggles and compared the South African struggle to the American civil rights movement...
Although many regions of Africa could benefit from the establishment of a similar program, Elkins said that Harvard chose to set up the program in South Africa because of the University’s decades-long relationship with that nation and because Harvard administrators hope that the program might serve as a model for the region...
...campaign has been particularly depressing for Irish fans, partly because it started out so promisingly. The team had won four of its first five games by mid-October, when it hoped for an upset against hated rival the University of Southern California in South Bend, Ind. On the day of the game, thousands of fans formed a receiving line and screamed as the players strolled through the gauntlet of cheers. "Goddam gifts to God!" shouted one supporter in unholy praise. "Probably be the best damn moment of their lives." The team's captain and quarterback, Jimmy Clausen, 22, of Thousand...