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...Despite bloodcurdling threats, Northern Alliance commanders had been somewhat reluctant to launch the promised frontal assault - Thursday's deadline was the third "final" ultimatum for the Taliban to surrender. But despite the fact that the Alliance has swept into Kabul and liberated half of the country, there hasn't, in fact, been a single pitched battle in this war. The Taliban's sequential withdrawals have for the most part spared the Alliance from having to fight street-to-street for control over any city. And the fundamentalist movement's demise has come about in large part because many...
...Israelis gave Arafat an ultimatum: either hand over Ze'evi's killers to Israel (a politically indigestible option for Arafat) or be officially designated the head of "an entity supporting and sponsoring terror." Israel was threatening Arafat's Palestinian Authority with the Taliban treatment. In the murderous story of the intifadeh, the most dreadful chapter may be about to unfold...
...around to see what they should have done. Unfailingly, there is a columnist every year that decides to jump on the bandwagon, to uproot a scribbled to-do list from his bulletin board and replant it on the editorial page of The Crimson, transformed into a 750-word published ultimatum of things that must be accomplished before one can graduate Harvard with a clear conscience/ peaceful spirit/ understanding of the importance of the world outside Johnston Gate. I will not follow suit. I will not provide my top picks. I will not implore students to leave their dorm rooms...
...parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small-time screenwriter and big-time partier. After only a few days, Paula was again uprooted and sent to live with a near stranger, Mrs. Cummings, after her mother, Elsie, issued an ultimatum: “Either she goes...
...however, the Administration is committed to Powell's plan, one that a senior European diplomat calls "ruthless prioritization." The short-term priority is to deal with the Taliban and its response to Bush's ultimatum. The longer-term goal is to build a strategy for concentrating on terrorism itself. "There's a sequence to follow," says the European source. "You've got to take them one at a time." In its initial phases, the military plan hence concentrates on Afghanistan. Last week the preparation for presenting the final options to Bush hit a brief snag. On Thursday, Shelton reviewed...