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Experts like Joshi believe that disgruntled Islamist extremists in India are now a part of the global jihad - "united by the Internet and cutting across class lines." Says Raman: "Over the last few years, [Indian Islamist terrorists] have expanded the ambit of their grievances from purely domestic issues to global issues like the U.S.-led war in Iraq. They are a part of the pan-Islamic agenda." Last year, two brothers, Indian Muslim doctors from Bangalore, were implicated in the abortive Glasgow attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Terrorists Within | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

...There is certainly a sense of wan amusement in watching America’s sharpest young minds lining up scores-deep in order to secure a minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Notes On A Tire Swing | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...Lawyers for the six convicted aid workers said they'd file for an appeal - but legal experts believe that given the narrow ambit left to the court under the judicial accords between France and Chad, they stand virtually no chance of receiving a more favorable ruling. In fact, French appeals courts are notorious for stiffening sentences in lower court rulings, meaning the Zoé's Ark crew could see they Chadian prison jolts lengthened - and then possibly compounded by eventual conviction in the case the French state brings against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Aid Workers Sentenced | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

...Commonwealth to meet "[S]tate action" requirement for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim); Krohn v. Harvard Law Sch., 552 F.2d 21, 23 (1st Cir.1977) (same). It follows, therefore, that records in the custody of the HUPD, a department within Harvard University, are not "public records" that fall within the ambit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Supreme Judicial Court Opinion in Crimson v. Harvard | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...outside the ambit of my experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Robert Rubin | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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