Word: coding
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...Qaeda's point man in the tribal area prior to the recent truce. After the Taliban's fall in December 2001, he helped fleeing al-Qaeda fighters and their families find sanctuary inside Pakistan, according to several of his fellow tribesmen. Mohammed observes an ancient, pre-Islamic code that exalts honor, revenge and giving sanctuary?even if it's your worst enemy who is asking. And for the Wazir, al-Qaeda weren't enemies; they were considered fellow Muslims fighting the infidel. "These al-Qaeda," marvels clergyman Maulana Hafta Khan in Jandola, southern Waziristan, "they love death like a drunkard...
Assistant Professor of Economics Veronica Chase joins an illustrious league of fictional Harvard professors who leave their ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase...
...this kind of self-discovery. He explains that, by putting people with common interests on a single campus, Harvard nurtures the formation of these bonds. “You [students] share something deeply profound, in sports, in theater, in class, wherever… With music, because music is internal code, when you love something, you want to share it. But if you meet a stranger, although you may not know him, but you each happen to know what the other loves, you immediately establish a different special kind of bond, and you’re willing to trust more...
...sports are launching a marketing blitz to attract new players. Each is spending about $10 million on a campaign to generate more interest in the game. It's all taking shape on two new websites: tenniswelcomecenter.com and playgolfamerica.com Both enable players, novice or experienced, to type in a zip code and search for local facilities that offer lessons, leagues and other programs. For the first time, the alphabet fiefdoms of golf and tennis (the PGA, USGA, ATP Tour, USTA and others) and major manufacturers such as Nike, Wilson, Prince and Callaway seem united under a single cause: to persuade more...
...heads up the Tennis Industry Association (TIA), says no tennis governing body can mandate price controls. But Web transparency can create local competition. Says Baugh: "If I'm a tennis club and I know that three or four other clubs will appear when a customer does a ZIP-code search, I'm now going to offer the most attractive package...