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...captured Oct. 13 near the Salang Pass, the high-water mark of the Taliban effort to drive Massoud's forces from the region. The campaign turned disastrous when Massoud retreated until the Taliban had stretched their lines dangerously thin. Then the Lion of Panjshir turned and abruptly struck at their flanks, a tactic he had used many times against the Soviets...
According to Cambridge Police Accident Investigator Paul W. Klerohwski, the cyclist was riding the wrong way down the street and struck the front bumper of the car, which was making a legal left turn onto Mass...
...effort to emulate Proposition 187. It has also fueled the current debate over affirmative action, with many states stripping away long-existing and beneficial affirmative action laws. Proposition 209, the legislation aimed at doing away with affirmative action in California, and the recent Hopwood vs. Texas case, which struck down the University of Texas Law School's affirmative action program, are only two instances...
...last Saturday afternoon, a man wielding a knife struck a graduate student on the side of the head and fled with his cash and credit cards on Quincy Street near the Lamont Library gate...
...PAULO, Brazil: A Brazilian domestic jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff today, killing at least 95, Brazil's Globo TV network reported. The plane, a Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile...