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...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...Sociology Department in more than a decade. It turns out that that’s not enough at Harvard, which rejected his application last month. Another star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were unable to meet the inordinately exacting standards of Harvard’s tenure review process. Harvard is famous for sending away even the most promising junior faculty to make their names elsewhere, and then occasionally bringing them back after they?...
...Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among these giants, Infante stood proud...
...scene opens on the title character weeping into a phone and bemoaning her failed life, which seems to comprise a string of bad break-ups and an even worse attitude. Unfortunately for our heroine, whoever is on the other line just won’t commiserate, and Witherspoon breaks off the conversation with that tried-and-true excuse, “I guess I’m just not in the mood to talk right...
...this season’s most feared hitter in the Ancient Eight, Ryan Lavarnway, the winner of the last three Ivy League Player of the Week awards. With the count 0-2, Lavarnway’s eight home runs and 38 RBI meant nothing, as Perlman pulled the string and sat the powerful outfielder down with a wicked changeup. “That showed me a lot, especially for a freshman,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “He was keeping them off balance with the changeup all day.” Yale?...