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...leading the house. Finally, on Dec. 9, Mather masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced their departure after 18 years as masters, the longest tenure of any current masters. Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds has yet to announce who will take over the three vacant House master positions...
...foiled bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has raised talk of striking at al-Qaeda in Yemen, where the plot is believed to have originated. Yet the extremists operating from Yemen present the military with precious view good "aim points." In the old days, the enemy had airfields, early-warning radars, ammo depots - even big defense and intelligence headquarters - that could be destroyed from the air. A general could stride manfully out to the Pentagon podium, wave his pointer like a magic wand at a map where little explosion drawings had been inked, and gleefully tally...
...million people, especially following two recent Yemeni-U.S. strikes against purported AQAP training camps that are claimed to have killed more than 60 militants. The attacks on December 17 and 24 were initially hoped to have had killed Wahishi, Shehri and al-Awlaki, but no evidence has yet demonstrated this to be the case. And there's scant chance those men will allow themselves to end up in the U.S. military's crosshairs by straying far from the human shield provided by innocent Yemenis. (Read "Despite U.S. Aid, Yemen Faces Growing al-Qaeda Threat...
...Amping up the sport of sailing is the point of Extreme 40 racing - and fortunately nobody has died yet. Collisions and capsizes come with the territory (when a sail the size of a tennis court fills with wind, a 1,300-kg carbon-fiber boat feels like it could flip over in a trice). What are described as "close-combat races" are concluded in minutes instead of days, and take place not on empty ocean stretches but on courses close to shore, where thousands of spectators can crowd onto grandstands. Top sailors have joined the circuit, including British double world...
...Yet while China often complains that criticism by foreign governments amounts to outside interference in its internal affairs, there are signs that the rapidly modernizing country is curbing its use of the death penalty of its own accord. The reforms are modest, to be sure, but some observers see them as a rare bright spot amid an overall bleak trend for human rights in China. (Read "China's Harsh Warning to Political Dissidents...