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...Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in more remote parts of Yemen, where they have taken shelter, and the government's ability to act against them has been limited. Indeed, it is the very weakness of the Yemeni state that makes it such an attractive base for bin Laden...
DIED. AILEEN RIGGIN SOULE, 96, springboard diver who at age 14 became America's youngest Olympic gold medalist; in Honolulu. The 4-ft. 7-in., 65-lb. athlete won her first gold in 1920; got a silver and bronze in swimming and diving four years later; and late in life became the nation's oldest living female gold medalist...
...what may have appeared to be a natural progression of brothers was actually far from guaranteed. The youngest Moore didn’t decide to attend Harvard until the last possible day because of the wide range of options for skilled players like himself...
West spoke to an overflow crowd at the Law School’s Langdell Hall, commemorating the late A. Leon Higginbotham, the youngest black to ever become federal judge and a former professor at the Kennedy School of Government...
CHARGED. Ten Milwaukee youths, the youngest age 10, with reckless homicide after beating a 36-year-old man to death with bats, bricks, broomsticks and chairs; in Milwaukee, Wis. The incident, which started with an altercation over a tossed egg, jolted the city and prompted the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to urge local leaders to "do more than wring their hands...