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...year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from 33 in 2001 to 64 in 2002 and 71 last year. But many prosecutions have been overzealous. In September 2002, 15 Pakistanis were arrested off the southern coast in a rusting cargo ship, charged with international terrorism...
...combination of the rust Harvard accumulated over its nearly two-month layoff for winter break, reading period and finals and its surprise at Dartmouth’s strength made the match somewhat tougher than it otherwise might have been...
...hostilities ended, but North Korea held onto at least 19,000 soldiers, South Korea's Ministry of Defense estimates, and has stubbornly denied their existence ever since. Says Ahn Sang Won, a spokesman for the Korean Veterans Association: "We just don't understand why South Korea can't be tougher on the North." According to the government, Lee was only the 35th POW to escape North Korea alive...
...ultimately be damaged if Russia failed to address concerns about its apparent slide toward authoritarianism. And in an op-ed in the Russian daily Izvestia, Powell wrote that "certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause." If Powell was signaling a new, tougher White House policy, it has been a long time in the making. A senior U.S. official told journalists that concerns over Putin's authoritarian tendencies had been intensified by the Kremlin's crackdown on Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail...
...Carolina isn't laughing at a New England offense Jenkins insists is underrated. ?Our biggest concern is their running game,? he says. ?People say they don?t have a strong running game, but after watching film the last couple of days, it?s a lot tougher than I had imagined. They do a lot of straight-on blocking, and then they?ll mix in some misdirection blocking. And in the passing game, they run a bunch of three-step drops, which makes it tough to get your hands up. It?s going to be a long sixty minutes.? Fortunately...