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Mohammed's name would not surface again until after he helped complete the job Yousef bragged to the FBI about doing: toppling the World Trade Center towers. (Intelligence officials still can't fill that five-year gap in his dossier.) Last year in Karachi, he and Binalshibh gave an interview to an al-Jazeera TV reporter in which they spoke proudly of carrying out what they called "the martyrdom operation inside America." On camera, they provided details of the attack, disclosing coded e-mails that had referred to the Twin Towers as "the Faculty of Town Planning." They also displayed...
...entirely fair comparison. We relied on Mister Rogers to explain death and hurt and sadness, not to eradicate them. But if Ridge faces something of an inspiration gap, he might take a few lessons from Mister Rogers. For instance, that an explanation of a bad thing is only reassuring if it is straightforward and direct. Mister Rogers spoke softly, but he never soft-pedaled. And he knew how to be both compassionate and authoritative. He was "Mister" Rogers, after all, never "Fred." He wore a tie even when he dressed down. He also respected children's intelligence, and while...
...their merchandise in a searchable database--then takes a 3.5% cut of every sale. Few small merchants have the budgets to pay for display ads and top placement in search returns. And that's what it takes to get noticed next to several dozen heavyweight "featured stores" (Nordstrom, Godiva, Gap et al.) that are paying the bigger bucks for even greater visibility. So while the large Web retailers are cutting six-, seven- and even eight-figure deals with portals, they are effectively pushing the small players to the sidelines. "It used to be that the Web was the great equalizer...
...places like it. The College is home to students of nationalities ranging from Albanian to Zimbabwean, but most of these students don’t plan to tuck their return tickets home inside their diplomas. While they feel strong personal loyalties to their native countries, the opportunity gap between most developing nations and the U.S. is simply too large to overcome...
Yale workers are pushing for raises that would narrow—or at least prevent from widening—a gap they say exists between Yale and Harvard wages...