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...style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...
...already exist in Afghanistan, they belong to warlords, not the interim national government in Kabul. There is no single fighting body that operates in the interests of the country. For now, international peacekeepers hold the fort only in Kabul, and eventually they will want to hand over responsibility and pull out. Without a proper army in place, a return to the kind of chaos that gave rise to the Taliban and the feuding warlords is not out of the question. Says a U.S. military source: "Lawless groups like al Qaeda will again come in, fester, recruit and spread hatred unchecked...
Though Ellsberg’s situation seemed dire on the printed page, Gordon E. Beyer ’52 says he knew his former classmate would pull through...
...really set out to try to help pull together a movement against nuclear weapons that would be comparable to the anti-war movement,” he says...
...notice, “this will introduce them.” But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really was a nightman ready to fill prescriptions. The nightman has since left, but little else about the store has changed...