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Pakistani intelligence officials patiently tracked the potato truck all the way from the tribal hinterlands near the Afghanistan border to the port city of Karachi. Then they pounced, capturing a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 pounds of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose details of the secret financial networks used by al-Qaeda...
Speakers told members of the Metropolitan Highway System Advisory Board—which advises the MTA on land sales—that the loss of the CSX railyard, the only rail connection near Boston’s port, would cause a spike in truck traffic on the Boston area’s already-crowded highways...
...renovation of the MAC will take time, interim measures of providing more exercise machines in under-used campus spaces—both in Houses and the empty floors of the MAC—should have been adopted by the administration long ago, not belatedly by the council. That a truck delivered exercise machines to the MAC on Monday is a sign of improvement—too bad it came just as the weather warmed...
During the early days of September 1999, my first few days in Cambridge, the Red Sox and the Yankees were heatedly engaged in the playoffs. I was innocently sauntering along Mass. Ave. wearing my tattered Yankee hat when a man actually jumped out of his truck, mid-traffic, to teach me a crucial Boston lesson...
Well, I preached like this for three months. Then one day in a housing project in Shreveport, La., I decided that I would use that guy George Foreman to sell what I believed in. When I was a kid, no one followed the water trucks. But let a fire engine roar by, and people poured out of their buildings in their pajamas, rollers in their hair. I had to be that fire truck...