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...Harvard student body is one that is undeniably unique. Composed of students driven by ambition and a will to succeed, we pour ourselves wholly into our individual pursuits—academic, extracurricular or athletic. At the same time, as evidenced by the increasing number of final clubs, fraternities and sororities on campus, we also crave social interaction. Unfortunately, while this campus provides more than adequate resources for working, it provides no real facilities for community...
More than ever, that will make this a special-forces war. The stealth with which members of those units operate reduces the political risks that could fracture the U.S. coalition. But that assumes they succeed. Their record has been mixed. And in operations like Desert One, the calamitous U.S. rescue mission to Iran in 1980, they have done far more damage to U.S. prestige than to the enemy...
...hidden away in "three alternate financial systems which are separate and independent." The money that funds his network is so well guarded by sophisticated managers, he told a pro-Taliban newspaper in Afghanistan, that "if the whole world, including the U.S., tries to remove them, they won't succeed...
Given the cost, it's no wonder those who succeed attain hero status among their peers. The veterans love to spin dramatic yarns about an 83-year-old barrel racer who competed while legally blind, a one-armed calf roper, and a 66-year-old bronco rider who managed to beat a group of 20-year-olds. Pride motivates the tales, especially because the current crop of rodeo seniors considers itself the last generation to hone its skills by working on ranches rather than at specialized roping schools or college rodeos. "So many people get older and begin to shut...
...panic. When Afghans started crawling through the barbed-wire fencing, the Pakistani police attacked with whips and clubs, herding frightened families back across the border like dumb cattle. Some enraged Afghans responded with a barrage of stones. Others headed toward the old smugglers' routes through the mountains. Some may succeed in slipping past the Pakistani border police, but they must tread carefully: the trails are peppered with thousands of land mines left over from the Soviet...