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...porous border separating Afghanistan and Pakistan-a notorious jihadi is on the loose. He is responsible for guerrilla attacks, sabotage and cruel executions; his religious fanaticism inspires multitudes and threatens to destabilize much of Southwest Asia. Thousands of Western soldiers desperately search for the renegade terrorist in inhospitable terrain. But each time they have him cornered, he and his militia slip away into hidden valleys and caves...
High school, according to “Mean Girls”’s resident “outsider” Janis Ian, is complicated. It takes an expert to navigate the dangerous terrain of the high school cafeteria, where everyone from the “Nerdy Asians” to the “Unfriendly Black Hotties” is neatly divided into categories. Unspoken divisions reign supreme. While this may be an accurate portrayal of the high school social scene, Harvard students like to think they have progressed past this type of self-segregation. But in reality...
...birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, best known for her 1991 novel “A Thousand Acres” and her Twain-bashing essay “Say It Ain’t So, Huck.” Despite the advantage of returning to known terrain, Smiley stumbles, and her attempt to translate Hollywood to the page is as artificial as her political protest. As the war in Iraq is just beginning to start, Max and Elena take refuge in the filmmaker’s outdated estate—their escape from modernity and its discontents. But they...
...world of big-time college soccer is a lot like the world of big-time youth soccer. To navigate the terrain of either place is to succumb to an essentially nomadic existence. It’s a choice that many Americans are willing to make...
...small wheels. It's those wheels that account for the greatest savings in space, but they also cause the greatest resistance from some buyers--at least the ones who take their biking very seriously. A single spin of a big wheel, after all, takes you over a lot more terrain than a single spin of a little...