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...Americans in both countries are between two fires: if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a videotaped broadcast on al-Jazeera, predicting defeat for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...career. From the outset, students are forewarned of the College’s daunting zero-tolerance discipline policy; that is, whether inadvertent or otherwise, according to the student handbook, plagiarism of any sort “will ordinarily result in disciplinary action, including but not limited to requirement to withdraw from the College.” But, it seems that this stringent policy—aimed to ensure sincere and scrupulous scholarship—does not extend to members of Harvard’s Faculty. Rather, after the recent reprimand of Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree for virtual...
...Terrorists: Why Not Negotiate? The decision by the Philippines to withdraw its peacekeepers from Iraq in exchange for the release of a Philippine truck driver who was kidnapped by insurgents is to be applauded [Aug. 9]. Surely it is the duty of any government to safeguard its own people before anything else. The Philippines did not cave in to U.S. pressure or sacrifice one of its citizens to satisfy the Bush Administration. C.A. Van Meurs Christchurch, New Zealand...
...next movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love was universally skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor at Columbia?to look after their son Zohran and, it seemed, to withdraw from directing into the life of a suburban housewife...
Hours later, al-Sadr accepted a deal that would empty the shrine of his fighters, and in return U.S. forces would withdraw from the city, turning over responsibility for keeping the peace to Iraqi police. But uncertainty lingered over how long the truce would last. The upstart cleric, whose Mahdi Army was allowed to withdraw intact, has reneged on agreements before, and this latest tactical retreat, after hundreds of his men had been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush...