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...there's a man or a woman left alive in our village." As a precaution, the villagers moved the injured commando out of Gulab's house and hid him in a stable overnight, until it was safe for Gulab to make the six-hour trek down to the U.S. base at Asadabad and report that the SEAL--by then the subject of an intense search--was alive. Sometime later, Gulab went back to his village and then returned to Asadabad with the commando, this time reuniting the wounded and weary SEAL with his jubilant comrades...
...name--al-Qaeda, the base--hasn't made sense in years, at least not since al-Qaeda training camps were incinerated in the post-9/11 strikes on Afghanistan. But jihadism is an especially centrifugal force, flinging adherents across borders until what we still notionally call al-Qaeda exists everywhere and nowhere, more an impulse than an organization. Men and boys with small lives and big hopes for the afterlife visit jihadist websites, meet like-minded rejects at the local mosque, pay a visit to one of the overseas imams known for radical preaching and then--well...
...raise that members of the Pennsylvania legislature awarded themselves last week, hiking their base salary to $81,050, the second highest...
...Base salary for California legislators, the highest in the nation...
...road uniform of the Spinners for the first time was built up in the days following June’s first-year player draft. Despite putting up excellent numbers for the Crimson this past year—leading the team with a .360 average, a .432 on base percentage and a .583 slugging percentage in 139 at-bats—Farkes was not selected in the draft, a surprise considering he was taken in the thirty-ninth round...