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...lights. As I abandon the tuk tuk and hobble off in search of a taxi, the kind with four doors, four wheels and a meter, I'm wondering what's more amazing: that I still have two moderately functioning legs, or that it was possible to attain enough speed to have an accident during rush hour in Bangkok...
...made to Mafia supremo Dawood Ibrahim by his handlers in the Pakistani secret service to a December 1992 meeting in Dubai between Dawood's lieutenants and Islamic terrorists to the smuggling of explosives into deserted coves along the coastline south of Bombay. What is most remarkable is the speed with which India's most devastating terror strike was assembled by a handful of amateurs guided only by improvisation and furious zeal: just eight weeks elapsed from the first phone call to the day of the bombings...
...Friday, Harvard challenged the Bears—the league’s best team offensively and its worst defensively—on the hosts’ terms and paid the price. Playing at the warp-speed tempo that nearly delivered it right into the hands of Division III Roanoke last month, the Crimson saw its usual emphasis on field-goal defense go out the window...
...soon as the puck was dropped the fans were into the game as Dartmouth, with its speed and strength, made it clear it was going to put up a fight. The student section was packed, and Harvard supporters lined the glass with painted stomachs...
...think our game is great the way it is,” Botterill said. “It’s a pure game. There’s skill, speed, finesse—but it’s still a physical game. [Without checking] the best aspects of the game are accentuated...