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...were being rounded up, according to villagers, American soldiers bound and shoved the village women. That was an affront. Naibo, a middle-aged mother with cropped black hair, hands and feet scored from years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba, 7, to act out how she says she was bound. "If they touch our women again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'We Were Better Off Under the Russians' | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...wrote a “really dopey” screenplay called “Surface Tension” about a love-torn, ambitious politician, which he says was “like the first thing that anyone writes...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Rolling Stone | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Director Charles P. Ducey also said his organization was unusually busy, with previously traumatized students and those from war-torn countries showing unusual stress...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sept. 11 Attacks Stun Harvard, Nation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard undergraduates of 1977 thus saw a campus torn between the old and the new, undergoing a sometimes rough transition from idealism to social conservatism...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protests Turn Inward, Shift To College | 6/4/2002 | See Source »

...College decreased emphasis on athletic programs. Intramural games between Houses grew in popularity. But to cut expenses, the high maintenance steel stands that had transformed Harvard Stadium from a horseshoe to an oval were torn down over the protests of the football coach...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back in the Mix | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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