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...last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they prepared to be delivered into Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan to begin a furtive ground war in which no one knew exactly what came next...
...According to U.S. intelligence, chasing the Taliban and al-Qaeda will likely draw special-forces commandos into combat in the warrens of fortified underground tunnels and facilities scattered all over Afghanistan, from the Taliban strongholds Kandahar and Kabul in the east to Herat, near the country's western border with Iran. Many of the tunnels and bunkers were dug during the Afghan war with the Soviet Union but have been upgraded since a U.S. cruise-missile strike against al-Qaeda in 1998. U.S. soldiers have the military technology, such as night-vision goggles and breathing devices, to operate in this...
Under the original blueprint, Coolidge Hall would have been completely renovated and a new building would have been erected on part of the park behind the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall. An underground passageway across the park would have connected...
...photographs, while delightful, have naught to do with the theatre; Jeffry’s real name was Evelyn Fish and the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is little more than the entrance to Pusey Library. That said, it is worth the trip to Harvard’s underground library to see these 70-odd black and white portraits on display...
...Last Nite.” The band also does a masterful job of perverting genres—“Someday” is a dirty Bill Haley and the Comets-type number, while “Take it or Leave it” evokes comparisons to the Velvet Underground. The only track that seems somewhat incongruous among the mix is “Trying Your Luck,” which replaced “NYC Cops” before the release date in respectful response to the tragic events of Sept. 11. An upbeat, New Wave-influenced track that...