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...night of Jan. 7, after U.S. special-operations forces picked up intelligence that Fazul and Aden Hashi Ayro--a notorious and ruthless Afghanistan-trained militia leader--were riding in a convoy close to Ras Kamboni. According to an Ethiopian officer who was present, a local herdsman was paid to walk past the convoy and drop an electronic beam, which guided the air strike. Ayro was wounded. Initial media reports said Fazul was dead, but U.S. officials now believe he was not in the convoy after all and is currently hiding in Kenya. U.S. Deputy Assistant of Defense for African Affairs...
...then give students exactly 12 counts to move from their seats to the stage, moving in any way they consciously choose, so long as their movements fit within the parameter of the given counts. “They begin the geometry of moving in control of the space they walk in,” he said. “That will carry through life.” —Staff writer Alison S. Cohn can be reached at acohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...windy afternoon nearly 150 years ago, Harvard professor James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, started on his daily walk from the University to the offices of the magazine he edited. As he crossed the Charles, a sudden gust disrupted his routine—and that of his newly-founded magazine, “The Atlantic Monthly.” The wind blew Lowell’s top hat off his head and into the river, carrying away the magazine manuscripts he stored...
...junior Maria Larsson—who went undefeated—and classmate Lisa Vastola, the epee is sure to be the weakest weapon throughout the fall season. With multiple fencers abroad or otherwise occupied, the Crimson is filling holes in any way possible—even selecting from freshman walk-ons and other weapons. “We’re certainly weaker in the women’s epee,” Brand said. “Our third epee fencer isn’t even an epee fencer, so we have some work to do...We have...
...consequences. Each dusk, when elephant feeding time starts, a voluntary curfew descends on the town. This summer, a few miles from his office, tourists at Victoria Falls watched horrified as an adult animal attempted a new route across the Zambezi River and was swept over the rapids. A short walk upriver, Osborn takes me to meet Catherine Lolozi, 48, whose husband Luwaya Kikomeno, 49, was stripped, disemboweled and tossed into a tree by an elephant as he walked home on a city street on June 29. Lolozi is still too traumatized to speak. Her neighbor Mumandi Phanwer proffers: "An animal...