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...guys. The typical response in the developing world to the U.S. war on terror has run along these lines: harsh condemnation of bin Laden and unreserved solidarity with the U.S. as the victim of a terror outrage; strong intelligence cooperation with the U.S. in an effort to uproot al Qaeda global network; and misgivings over whether bombing Afghanistan will have any positive effect in combating terrorism. Even European governments who are sending troops are facing similar qualms among their own electorates...
...decided that they must carefully plot every moment of the next eight months if they are not to walk out in cap and gown turning 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...
...combination of these laws and human-level intelligence gathering (infiltration and interrogation of suspects) helped France successfully uproot terrorist networks in the mid-1990s and to thwart outrages planned during the 1998 soccer World Cup. Casting the net wide revealed that many people police had previously assumed were simply petty crooks had actually been thugging for the Islamists...
...meadow that generated the most excitement. "Many of the women just stood in the middle of it," she recalls. A visitor said she was envious of the unfettered habitat but admitted that she doubted her neighbors would allow it. Suburban homogeneity, it seems, can be harder than lawns to uproot...
...perfectly aware that we never will. The idea of high school is, alas, so deeply embedded in American life that it would take some sort of natural disaster to uproot...