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...lynchpin of the government's effort to defuse the Taliban insurgency is Sufi Mohammed, a septuagenarian Islamist cleric whose Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law has returned to Swat with the backing of the authorities. "We will ask them to lay down their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded...
...extent to which Weintraub has become the lynchpin of the offense reflects clearly in the setter’s gaudy numbers. After finishing 16th in the nation last year with 11.29 assists per game, the junior has upped his production to 11.60 per game, notching 348 of the team’s 371 assists thus...
...lynchpin of the film’s success is, unsurprisingly, Robin Williams, who flexes his satirical and dramatic muscles as Tom Dobbs, a Jon Stewart-ish TV personality who decides to run for president...
...places great importance on the student mass and its role in building community through communal worship. “The lifeblood of our organization,” Brewer says, “is our fellowship in Christ and through the Mass.” Lifeblood, lynchpin? Bible study, fellowship in Christ? You’d think Brewer and Bryant were reading from the same script. And their similarities go beyond vocabulary—their missions, also, seem essentially identical: Lee says that the HRCF helps “people to know Jesus Christ better,” while Sarah...
Yesterday marked the first day of the 2006 Harvard baseball season. For a team that opened its first official practice last night without 2005 lynchpin Schuyler Mann ’05, as well as three early departures to Major League organizations, there was an awful lot to buzz about...