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...sucka, fools gold that is!--I will leave the fairy-tale land of undergraduate life with a screaming three-headed bundle on my back and a dazed, weakened man dragging behind me, still confused about why he blacked out after the Band began its rendition of Ten Thousand...
More than a thousand Americans have been named Marshall Scholars since the scholarship’s founding...
...intelligence official. The Pentagon is watching the mountain passes along the south and west of Afghanistan's long, porous border with Pakistan, and pushing the Islamabad government to mount stringent patrols. The search concentrated last week on the ridges of Tora Bora, just southwest of Jalalabad, where a thousand or so Arab fighters were holed up. Last month Afghans passing through reported spotting bin Laden near the Tora Bora bunker built by mujahedin in the 1980s. Washington ordered the Navy to board any ship officers suspect might be ferrying bin Laden abroad. But when it comes to covering the ratholes...
Many scholars would say that is impossible. Bin Laden, they argue, is already a hero in the Islamic world; his death will merely inspire a thousand--10,000--imitators. That lends a logic to the acts of Sept. 11. At first glance the deliberate provocation of the most powerful nation in the world made little sense. But if America's reaction to that atrocity inspires a generation of young Muslims to commit themselves to armed struggle against the West, bin Laden wins. Then all the money spent on space-age pilotless planes and U.S. special forces, with their night-vision...
...Kayoko snuffs out her cigarette and explains that the next time a guy wants to pay to have sex with her, she and her friends are gonna rob him instead. These customers carry more than a thousand bucks in their wallets. It'll be easy. She'll call some guy friends?like they ever have anything better going on?and they'll do the roughing up and the threatening. Come on, she tells her friends, easiest ichi man?10,000 yen?you'll ever make...