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...students in Pakistan, including young Brits. A militant in Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group whose activists have been responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan as well as the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told Time that Britain is now a fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda foot soldiers. "It's an ideal situation," he says. "The young Muslims over there are not happy with the way Muslims are being treated and want to do something about...
...showy stylist or a Big Thinker, but in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic; 652 pages), the sixth novel in the Potter series, she weaves a remarkable number of narrative threads into a complex, moving and elegantly balanced whole, without any apparent effort. Rowling loves to wrong-foot readers, and the previous book, Order of the Phoenix, reads like the loins-girding preamble to an all-out, good-vs.-evil, wand-on-wand wizard war. But Half-Blood Prince turns out to be something else: an elegant, fugal tapestry in the mode of Prisoner of Azkaban...
...clothesline, fluffed a bit at the edges and attached to the wall with three nails--seemed less like works than offhand gestures, the merest residues of an intuition. Years later, Tuttle described another of them as "some paint on the end of a coffee stirrer, placed on a 40-foot wall...
...achieve for a year. After the bombings, he plowed through several press conferences, as well as emergency meetings of a Cabinet committee and eleventh-hour bargaining sessions at Gleneagles from which he secured an agreement to double aid to Africa by 2010. He did it all without putting a foot wrong--on three hours' sleep. That kind of mastery under extreme strain cannot be faked; it shows an almost ferocious resilience at his core...
...Broadway St. property was assessed in 2005 at a total value of $1,901,500—of which the 14,896-square-foot lot accounted for nearly all, at $1,836,200. The City of Cambridge lists the property as having a living space of 35,502 square feet, of which Cassell says about 5,000 is unusable...