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...Washington watched it all with a startling detachment, a view refracted through its focus on Osama bin Laden. While the Bush Administration cares about stabilizing Afghanistan, its first interest is eliminating the master terrorist. So far, officials don't think the situation on the ground is impeding the pursuit. In some ways, the chaos even played to the U.S.'s advantage. "Our priorities have much more to do with finding bin Laden," says an intelligence official. "If it's Afghans killing Afghans, that doesn't hurt us as much as Americans killing Afghans...
...paper. FBI, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officials have quietly mounted a crash intelligence project to collect and analyze attendance rosters, pay ledgers, letters from home and other paperwork in bombed-out al-Qaeda training camps. From these and other sources, counterterror specialists are racing to assemble a master list of thousands of radical jihadists who studied and bonded at the camps, then scattered around the globe to form "sleeper cells." "A lot of documents have been left behind, and we've got to get our hands on that stuff," says an official. To that end, orders have gone...
...Harrison, besides being a member of the Beatles, was also a godfather of world music. By studying with Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and playing the sitar himself on songs like "Norwegian Wood" and "Within You Without You," he helped bring the sounds of the East into Western pop. Since Harrison, pop musicians ranging from Sting to David Byrne to Marc Anthony have felt free to sample from music from around the world in their pop and it's partly because of the barriers that Harrison broke down. For Harrison, combining musical cultures came naturally. Said Harrison: "When I first...
...mention short-lived) desire to leave unfinished concrete pockmarked by identical one-inch holes? Concrete was the building material because of its “riot-proof” nature—an attractive asset after the events of the 1960’s. According to Mather Co-Master Sandra Naddaff ’75, the holes, which are a product of the mold into which concrete was poured, are actually meant to be decorative. While their success in serving this purpose is clearly debatable from an aesthetic standpoint, they have been put to use by the artistically talented...
...several key areas, to quote the official Core website. The philosophy of the Core Curriculum, the website’s mission statement explains, is that if students are familiarized with different ways of critical thinking about cultural, social, historical, and scientific problems instead of told to master “a set of Great Books” or digest “a specific quantum of information,” they will be equipped “to pursue additional knowledge which they may need to or wish to acquire later on in life...