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...detainees have been permitted to leave Gitmo, but 67 were released on the condition that they be held by their home governments, including Pakistan, Britain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. At least 12 of those set free are believed to have resumed terrorist activities, according to the Defense Department. The vast majority of those released were deemed to be no longer a threat or of any intelligence value. Since the U.S. started the review tribunals last fall, about 40 detainees have been or will be freed because they were found not to be enemy combatants after...
...surveillance and gather intelligence of the quality that would have been provided by the Australians. Then when an American contingent of 10th Mountain Division troops (with two Australian soldiers acting as liaison officers) air assaulted into the valley they were pinned down by al-Qaeda fighters who had occupied vast areas of the high ground...
...solid gold. Kitov was so excited, he now can't recall how he reacted. But his teammates remember him grabbing his head with both hands. "It can't be possible," he gasped. "It can't be possible." The 2,400-year-old mask is just the first in a vast haul of treasures - including a gold ring engraved with the figure of an athlete, and a near-complete set of armor as well as bronze arrowheads, spearheads, swords and breastplates - that together amount to one of the most sensational archeological finds of recent years. The Thracian artifacts were first brought...
...comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete the 50-yd. dash in a certain number of seconds, he was failing not only himself but the whole nation...
...bubble, pt. 1Ranking at the top of my list of saddest characteristics of Harvard culture is that it is incredibly self-absorbed. The internal focus of our activities and thoughts often blinds us to the reality that simply because of the reputation and influence of our institution and the vast array of resources at our disposal, we can be a force for positive change that is more far reaching than campus politics and the accompanying discourse. Whether it is divestment from Sudan or South Africa, pushing for diversity in the workplace, or organizing to raise money for HIV/AIDS advocacywhen students...