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...found there again Tuesday night, containing a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of Logan Airport. Maybe that someone was reconnoitering with accomplices who worked on the planes, who could plant weapons onboard. Monday night, some of the Boston suicide squads collected at the Park Inn in suburban Chestnut Hill. By Wednesday dozens of police in bulletproof vests descended on Room 432 to collect and remove evidence...
...their opinions of the U.S. and its relationship with Iran. "Finally, we realize not only that the U.S. isn't our worst enemy, but that a much more dangerous enemy exists," said student Jamileh Rezvani. Insights like this sometimes led to awkward yet poignant gestures. At the gym in suburban Tehran, for instance, the Star-Spangled Banner was played before the start of an aerobics class...
...early 1990s, Islamist radicals found a pool of willing recruits in the cauldrons of youthful rage found in the impoverished suburban ghettoes that house many of France's 5 million people of Arab origin. The point of connection between the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles and Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria. There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground - where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike. The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic...
...assuming that groups, rather than individuals, add diversity to a campus. "A white applicant from a disadvantaged rural area in Appalachia may well have more to offer a Georgia public university such as UGA--from the standpoint of diversity--than a nonwhite applicant from an affluent family and a suburban Atlanta high school," the court wrote...
Pierce consoles himself that at least he has drawn the line at rock. Suburban white kids may be snapping up rap CDs, but Pierce and Resistance Records take pride in not contributing to the trend. "To introduce white kids to rap," Pierce says, "would be an abomination...