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...small unit of American special forces arrived, and their commander slipped inside. A few minutes later, the Alliance chiefs jumped into their jeeps and sped across the desert, trailed by 5,000 troops. Dostum scrambled up an ancient mud mound and raised his binoculars: on the horizon a thin line of black dots showed where the Taliban was waiting...
...there and practically drool over her at the cabaret and then fork over a few hundred dollars to have sex. So why not, you know, lead them on? Make them think she was going to give it up, and then jump the guys and rob them. Kayoko, a thin 17-year-old with long, permed hair, is sitting with two girlfriends on a wooden bench when she hatches the plan. This grassy park adjacent to their former junior high is where they kill their afternoons, smoking joints or Marlboros, sniffing thinner, whatever it takes to escape their boring homes...
...evidence linking Yarkas to the Sept. 11 attacks is intriguing but thin. German investigators searching the Hamburg apartment once occupied by Atta found Yarkas? former Madrid telephone number in a notebook belonging to the fugitive Said Bahaji. Yarkas reportedly told his interrogators that Islam is a "social religion" in which contacts are regularly passed around, and that he had no idea how his number had reached the Hamburg cell...
When she is actually singing, Spears’ airy, thin voice fails as it hovers in an uneasy relationship with the production. Often it is simply swamped by the background music as in “What It’s Like to Be Me.” Elsewhere, her voice weighs down an otherwise dynamic track. Her producers have yet to find a satisfactory method for dealing with her voice’s fundamental weaknesses...
...these scholarships hurt the incentive system, we can insert more creative policies to keep students working at the tippy-top of their ability. Each semester we can thin the herd by culling the underachievers. If you know you will be expelled if you don’t pull a 250th in that Core, you will start working hard. By cutting out the lazy, we would make Harvard a more prestigious University, where people do their best work, or as the weakest link, they leave—goodbye. But why stop there...