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...Zarqawi drifted back to Afghanistan and passed through Iran and northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion in March 2003. In the chaotic days after the fall of Saddam, al-Zarqawi began to build a terrorist network by luring foreign jihadis to Iraq. He pulled off his first two spectacular attacks with the August 2003 bombings of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf...
...kinds of culture: the cultural heritage of Lascaux's art, the stubborn mold that threatens it and the arcane and insular culture of French bureaucracy that diffuses responsibility for what went wrong. But it begins and ends with the beauty and mystery of the Lascaux cave. "It's so spectacular that it boggles the mind," says Jean Clottes, one of the world's foremost experts on cave paintings. "When I first saw it, I cried...
...were the first Harvard players to qualify for the ITA All-Americans since the mid-80’s, Anderson and O’Riain also were ranked No. 3 nationally entering the NCAAs, the highest ranking ever for a Harvard doubles team. All told, it was a spectacular run for a duo that only joined forces for the first time at the beginning of the year. —CALEB W. PEIFFER
...being staged on a much grander scale in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Genghis Khan's Mongol empire. Though festivities are organized all over the country, the biggest take place in the capital, Ulan Bator. A thousand horsemen will put on a spectacular equestrian show there on the festival eve, July 10. The next morning, Naadam will begin with a recital by 800 morin huur players (the morin huur, a two-stringed fiddle, is Mongolia's national instrument) and a performance by 800 singers of "long songs"?the hypnotic vocal music of the country's vast...
While the Harvard track and field team had anything but a spectacular season record, there’s a story that the numbers don’t tell. The Crimson men lost all three of the team scoring meets and twice finished third of three against Ivy competition. The women fared slightly better, winning one of the three scored meets but also falling to third place in its two three-team Ivy meets. Numbers on the roster, and not performance, were responsible for the team’s struggles. “I feel like individually, we?...