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...remember it was the first decent weather that we had in April. It was the most beautiful day after a long winter. Most college campuses go nuts in early April, but I think the reaction at Harvard that spring was excessive...
...Auburn Street. The anarchists from Boston were marching down Mt. Auburn Street. We were having a black-tie dinner at the time of the demonstration. The protesters broke the windows on the first level of the club and threw tear gas. I felt like I was in the Winter Palace. We went upstairs and stood out on the balcony—in black tie—and stayed there until it all cleared...
Most folks know Buffalo, N.Y., for its chicken wings, but in the airline business it's famous for ferocious winter storms that bring air travel--and sometimes all travel--to a frozen halt. That's what happened last December when Buffalo was buried under a record 7 ft. of snow. Southwest Airlines, with its lean scheduling system, was hit harder than most. One of its planes got stuck so long it came due for a routine maintenance check. Without it, the plane wouldn't be allowed to fly--and that would cost Southwest tens of thousands of dollars in lost...
...fought in Chechnya under a Saudi commander known simply as Khattab (killed in action earlier this year), who had fought in Afghanistan and was believed to have been close to Osama bin Laden. And a few score al-Qaeda operatives took refuge alongside Chechen fighters hiding in Georgia last winter. Even there, however, there were clear differences - the al-Qaeda operatives urging the Chechens to attack Western targets in Russia, while many local Chechen commanders showed little interest in global 'jihad,' seeing their own priority as a struggle for national survival. That didn't discourage the al-Qaeda elements from...
...last January, the two men were living together in Tacoma, Washington, near Fort Lewis, where Muhammad had been stationed. Sometime during the winter, nearby neighbors called the police when they heard gunshots coming from near the house. Police, who Wednesday removed a tree stump from the backyard of the house, believe Malvo and Muhammad may have used the tree for target practice. The Seattle Times reports that when Muhammad and Malvo showed up in July to visit Muhammad?s former sister-in-law Sheron Norman in Louisiana, the older man introduced the boy as his son, according to Norman...