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...same individual had conducted “misrepresentation to a lesser extent” at the BSC in the past, Rodgers and Ducey said. They declined to comment further...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Extension Student Poses as Undergraduate | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

...crazy"). Whether he's mentally competent to stand trial remains to be seen, but some legal experts suspect Walker will not be tried as a traitor; instead he'll be charged with sedition - a largely unused charge that implies the advocacy of violence against the government - or some other, lesser crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did John Walker Join a Cult? | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

Many other arms stretched the same way: Indian, Persian, Arab, Mongol, Turkish, Chinese. There were also lesser-known tribal groups, like the Kushans, a Central Asian nomadic lot who around the start of the Christian era controlled northern India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using the Kabul region as a summer vacation spot. For all their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art of Survival | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...about the circumstances of a case, preventing the attorney from giving the most appropriate legal advice possible. For instance, the accused might be less inclined to share information with their counsel that would clear their name in a particular case if this information might possibly incriminate them in a lesser or different offence...

Author: By Brian J. Wong, | Title: Ashcroft's Disregard for Justice | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...them carrying photographs of one or two women present as evidence of a new order in the making. But Germany's Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung offered a more sobering view. "Afghanistan's political reorganization poses the kind of question that ? has no good answers, only ones that pose greater or lesser degrees of evil," an editorial concludes. For example, without an international security force the country would quickly slide back into bloody civil war, but there's no "politically acceptable and militarily effective" force available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What They're Saying About the War | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

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