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...announced purge only if the U.S. backs him. After all, two men on Karzai's list of wrongdoers--the intelligence chiefs of Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif--are tough characters whom the U.S. has used as proxies in the war against al-Qaeda. U.S. policy had been to avoid involvement in what it calls "green on green" fighting in Afghanistan: conflicts between militias at least theoretically loyal to the new government. But lately U.N. officials in Afghanistan say they have witnessed a sea change in the American attitude. The new stance was illustrated most vividly last month when U.S. paratroopers...
...means that your In box swells, your pay and benefits shrink, and bathroom amenities don't magically appear. In an office haunted by the ghosts of laid-off employees, those workers who dodged the hatchet aren't necessarily the lucky ones. They must excel at their old jobs to avoid still looming staff cuts and must also juggle extra, unfamiliar duties...
...Sarkozy and his British counterpart David Blunkett agreed that the center at Sangatte would close for good by April 2003. Some 900 French police are now stationed around Calais to intercept migrants, while an additional 1,000 places have been created in reception centers elsewhere in the country, to avoid large concentrations of asylum seekers in specific areas. Two weeks ago, the French announced major arrests: they had broken up six people-smuggling rings operating inside Sangatte. "This is all about preventing the emergence of another Sangatte, where organized smuggling groups can set up shop again," says a spokesman...
Against young and less-talented teams like Dartmouth and Vermont the Crimson might be able to get away with surrendering that many man-advantages, but against the Golden Knights and the Saints, the upper echelon of the ECAC, Harvard will have to avoid playing with...
With the home crowd, the familiar facilities and the extra day’s rest, the Crimson should be at a considerable advantage, though Harvard coach Sue Caples has warned the team to avoid easy distractions...