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Immediately after the incident, it was tempting to view Reid more as a lone nut than a cog in a terrorist machine. On Dec. 21, when he first tried to fly to Miami, he raised enough concerns--he paid for his ticket in cash and had no checked bags--that airport officials questioned him so long that he missed the flight. When he showed up the next day, his appearance--long-haired, disheveled, druggie--seemed almost calculated to draw attention. At the boarding gate, says Annie Joly, a Frenchwoman on the flight, "I was immediately struck by how bizarre...
...security equation. It is difficult to measure the amount of security that debt forgiveness or development aid can buy. But unless the world's leading economy plays a larger role in redressing the global balance of prosperity, there will be fertile breeding ground aplenty for terrorists. And being the lone superpower will not buy security. "Let them hate so long as they fear" is not a viable modus operandi in a world in which the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction is no great challenge. As the events of Sept. 11 showed, U.S. invincibility should not be confused with...
Harvard duplicated a late-January 8-1 win over the Ephs. Its lone loss came at the No. 2 spot, where junior Dylan Patterson fell, 3-1. Bullock defeated twelfth-ranked Parth Doshi...
...Crimson’s top four players swept their matches, while the lone Harvard loss came in the ninth spot, where sophomore Kristin Wadhwa fell in straight games...
...Boit first got on skis in 1996, after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other...