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...remote and largely ungoverned nature of South Waziristan made it the ideal hiding place for foreign militants, al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fleeing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Over the years, unmolested by government intervention, various groups of militants fortified their bases and recruited local residents to their cause. From those groups, the Pakistani Taliban emerged in 2003, partly in response to then President General Pervez Musharraf's about-face on support for the Afghan Taliban after the Sept. 11 terror attacks...
...Kevin plays along, pretending to be Jim—but then the company thinks that someone has stolen Jim’s card and is using it in Puerto Rico (where the Halperts are honeymooning). Oh, and Michael, Kevin, and Oscar all try to call Jim and Pam at various points, even though the couple had asked to be left alone. So much for that...
Project Minerva—the first initiative of its kind at Harvard—consists of various professors and officials interested in cybersecurity from the university’s various schools, including Rosenbach, the Kennedy School’s Richard Clarke and Joseph S. Nye, and the Law School’s Jack L. Goldsmith...
...performance, directed by Sam L. Linden ’10 and put on by the Hyperion Shakespeare Company at Harvard, consists of nine scenes describing the seven deadly sins as manifested in various works of William Shakespeare. Its characters range from tortured to downright oblivious, and all of them find themselves victims of a particular fatal flaw. One can laugh and even sympathize with them, but would certainly never want to become them, though it is always clear how easily one could...
...book begins by openly challenging the model for daily life in the Soviet Union in a series of stories that emphasize the various shortcomings and irrationalities of the Soviet regime. “Paris Lost” by Wladimir Kaminer is the account of a counterfeit Paris, built by the Soviet government as part of a program to supposedly send some of the nation’s most productive workers on a free vacation to the European center of culture. Of course, they couldn’t possibly do this in reality—after all, capitalist temptations were lying...