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Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman wrote in an e-mail to the Princeton community, “I deeply regret the enormous strain that these events have caused, first and foremost, to the students whose rights were violated...
...soldier is beginning to show the strain. Musharraf still exercises every evening, briskly striding around the tightly guarded Army House compound. But he is suffering from a bum shoulder and can barely lift his arm. "See?" he says, failing to get it fully over his head. "That's as far as it goes." His daily tennis game, played with security guards, was canceled a few months...
...made an arrest. Without naming the suspect, she says he has received the anthrax vaccine, has a job that involves devising bioterror scenarios and once worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. That facility works with the Ames strain of anthrax, which was used in the attacks. She also says the suspect recently "had a career setback that challenged his high ambitions and left him angry and depressed...
...Bush to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and most have been quietly exasperated by the new policy he announced last week that made Yasser Arafat's ouster a precondition for progress. Continuing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza puts their alliance with the U.S. under domestic political strain, and there's considerable fear in Arab capitals that this tension will be exacerbated if - or more likely when - the U.S. ignores their reservations and invades Iraq. The Bush administration appears to be calculating that decisive action to eliminate the noxious regime in Baghdad will do more to transform...
...child at home and memorized several of his poems. She saw him frequently and, like the rest of his close family, called him affectionately “RF.” Even today she recalls discussing with him the sound of poetry and “the strain of rhythm upon a meter...