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...this shadowy war, the Taliban's intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, has scored some impressive hits. His biggest coup: catching Abdul Haq, 43, the Pashtun commander who slipped into Afghanistan two weeks ago to lay the groundwork for a revolt against the Taliban. Afghan sources tell TIME that Taliban spies dangled a juicy piece of bait in front of Haq: several regional Taliban commanders were ready to defect...
...just the first 10 pages Gornick is able to lucidly illustrate the importance of the complex relationship between subject and narrator and lay the groundwork to delve into how to understand and express this relationship. But in some ways Gornick misses this golden opportunity. As a premier essayist with a large body of work to her name, Gornick has a vast supply of personal essays which she could draw upon to explain how she searches for this narrative persona in her own life. Who better to explain where she triumphed and where she fell short than the writer herself...
...evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious." Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer contends that the Laws "flatten the Gospel," while CCC's culture cramps "faith into a dualism between saved and damned, right and wrong, moral and immoral." Immoral often meant liberal: Bright helped lay the groundwork for the religious right. Of his stylistic critics, he notes "Jesus had to be simple so the masses would hear him gladly...
...with the University at a crossroads in development—exhausting available resources in Cambridge while laying the groundwork for greater expansion in Allston—how Harvard deals with its neighbors has become central to the University’s interests, something beyond mere altruism...
Harvard has more than its share of questions for next year, but the 2000-01 incarnation of the Crimson laid the groundwork so that pretty soon most of the "when was the last time" questions will stop because the current group of students will have already seen the answer...