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Hall should return in top form after being slowed by the flu at the end of the season. Her illness forced her to withdraw from the College Squash Association Individual Championships, but Hall still managed to finish the season as the No. 4 intercollegiate player and earn her third consecutive first-team All-Ivy selection...
...report advocated neither the divestiture of stock in all companies operating in South Africa nor the initiation of shareholder resolutions calling on those companies to withdraw their operations from the racially segregated nation...
Last spring, after 64 Harvard professors signed a petition calling for the University to withdraw from its investments in Israel—estimated at more than $600 million—University President Lawrence H. Summers said Harvard did not intend to divest from the beleaguered state...
...Another reason they may have decided to launch attacks inside Saudi Arabia: The announcement two weeks ago that the U.S. would withdraw most of its 5-10,000 combat personnel from the kingdom. Al-Qaeda may be taking advantage of that highly publicized announcement to start attacking targets inside Saudi Arabia, in order to create the impression that they are driving the Americans out, in the way that Hezbollah drove the Israelis out of Lebanon. They can't make that claim if they didn't fire a shot. But a series of attacks before the Americans carry out their planned...
...home against fellow Muslims. Then again, the Egyptian Islamists who make up a major component of al-Qaeda's senior leadership have a long-established tradition of direct and bloody attacks on their own government. And the al-Qaeda leadership may read the decision by the U.S. to withdraw most of its troops from Saudi Arabia as a signal of the growing vulnerability of a regime they regard as illegitimate...