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Something as small as a box cutter tore the World Trade Center from our skyline, yet the terrorist threats will only get smaller still--germs, molecules, split atoms--and become the more menacing for it. Americans' greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...
...Reports suggested a split in the Taliban leadership over the price to the Afghan people of hosting bin Laden, with moderate Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Muttawakil keeping such a low profile that he was thought to have defected. There were also reports from southern and eastern Afghanistan that Taliban police are incensed by the arrogance of bin Laden's fighters, and have clashed with them. In Jalalabad one of bin Laden's associates died in an explosion, apparently handling a hand grenade: sources named him as Abu Baseer al-Masri...
After a tough loss to nationally-ranked Princeton last weekend, the Harvard field hockey team (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) returned to action over the weekend and split its two games at Jordan Field...
...against U.S.-backed Uzbeks in the battle for supremacy among rival factions of the Northern Alliance. Russia wants to restore the Tajik-led government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. "Pakistan is against such development of the events, as well the U.S.A., due to the efforts of which the split within the anti-Taliban coalition started," Pravda reports. "The United States promised its support to General Rashid Dostum (originates from Uzbekistan). The situation was very intense - on the edge of the armed conflict between the Tajik and Uzbek wings of the alliance." Moscow may want its own troops to reinforce...
...invited speakers, R. Graham O’Donoghue ’02, explicitly opposed the living wage, though Associate Vice President Thomas E. Vautin and Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard S. Freeman both expressed support for the practice of outsourcing. However, the comment period was more split, as several students spoke against “uniform minimum wages” and questioned the circumstances of Hoxby’s resignation...