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Even by Pakistan's cynical political standards, last week's selection of a new Prime Minister seemed a sordid affair. This was an arrangement rigged outside Parliament. It was struck in a jail cell, in lengthy telephone calls to exiled politicians wanting a comeback, and with the usual allegations of bribes and threats directed at legislators. None of this offers much hope for the start of President Pervez Musharraf's new brand of what he calls "guided democracy...
...Qaeda's Southeast Asian and Australian arm, has been by far the most active. The countries that took it least seriously until the Bali bombings?Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?are precisely where JI has had most freedom of movement. It's not hard to deduce why Bali struck JI as an ideal target. After all, JI was more constrained in mounting an operation in Singapore and Malaysia, thanks to the arrest of operatives there, the seizure of assets and heightened security. In Australia, JI cells were almost all support and not combat units. In Thailand, important JI functionaries were present...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...
...altercation reportedly took place during a game of shinny before the Golden Knights’ 2-1 loss to rival St. Lawrence on Nov. 2. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Morris said he was twice struck into the boards by one of his players during the pick-up game, prompting him to retaliate...
Though Harvard played well, Penn struck first with the benefit of a questionable call. The Quakers scored in the 17th minute, when the official awarded Penn a penalty kick off of a seemingly clean tackle by freshman back William Craig. Penn freshman back Erik Violante capitalized on the ensuing opportunity, rocketing the shot past Roth...