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...bomb tore through a police academy bus in central Kabul this morning, in another disturbing reflection in Afghanistan of the early insurgent activities that eventually threw Iraq into bloody instability. The attack appears to have expressly targeted Afghanistan's fledgling police force, killing 35 police instructors, police officers and civilians and wounding more than 50, including two Japanese civilians and one Korean. The attack is the worst Kabul has seen since the fall of the Taliban...
...rides. The locals are particularly concerned, since some of Sitt's actions-- he demolished go-karts and batting cages this winter, long before he could start building anything to replace them--evoke one of the darker chapters in Coney Island redevelopment. In 1966, Fred Trump (Donald's father) tore down the Steeplechase amusement park to try to prod the city into letting him build high-rise housing. When the city didn't, Trump let the lot lie vacant--until the city bought...
...they weren’t. Relations between Mass. Hall and University Hall remained tense throughout the tenures of Summers and historian William C. Kirby, whom Summers had handpicked to forward his agenda in FAS. The strained relationship tore when Summers’ intention to fire Kirby became public, eventually leading to the departure of both leaders...
...tore around the yard climbing trees and building G.I. Joe forts. He carried a Cabbage Patch doll named Sylvester, dressed in matching camo, under his arm. In school, teachers had trouble channeling his enthusiasm into classwork. "He could look at something and fix it. He didn't need a book," says Tomson. "In the military, it's hands on. He was in his element...
...players we added midseason have improved so much, and now we’ll get to see that.”BROWN 4, HARVARD 3Playing on Brown’s Senior Day, the Crimson opened the match strongly, but ultimately fell, 4-3.Freshman Lena Litvak and senior Julia Forgie tore through the Brown top doubles pairing of Michelle Pautler and Sara Mansur, 8-3, in just 59 minutes. The Forgie-Litvak pairing was thrown together in Ko’s absence and has run up a 4-0 record in Ivy play.After junior Vilsa Curto, who is also a Crimson editor...