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...academic areas, but does this justify his charge that their only interest in attending Harvard in the first place was to simply mold clay or play the cello? We doubt this letter would have found its way to The Crimson if instead it were a Bill Gates-type who withdrew. We detect a healthy level of anti-athlete prejudice...
...three years of drought, five years of failed harvests and 22 years of war, the refugees have exhausted their meager savings and killed their livestock. In August the camps around Mazar-i-Sharif had a two-week supply of food. After Sept. 11 all aid was suspended as agencies withdrew; 230 have died in Dehdadi since then. Others have fled into the frozen mountains rather than live in a war zone. Without food or water, many have surely perished. Now, with the Taliban's retreat, the way to better-supplied camps near Pakistan is open--but many of the refugees...
...Massoud. For all anti-Taliban Afghans, the latest chapter in their bloody history began not on Sept. 11, but two days earlier. Everything that has happened since is seen as guided by his ghostly hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban." In death, Massoud has become the one commander no one dares sell...
...reached. In the meantime, it will continue to be administered by the U.N., in tandem with the new assembly. MACEDONIA Shock Waves The fragile peace process received further setbacks after a bomb exploded in the border town of Tetevo and the main ethnic Macedonian party, the Social Democratic Alliance, withdrew from the governing coalition. The blast went off outside the office of the E.U.'s monitoring mission on the eve of excavations of suspected mass graves. Inspectors later found human remains thought to belong to six of 12 Macedonian civilians who disappeared during a rebellion by ethnic Albanians in July...
...Laden grew angrier later that year when the government invited U.S. troops to the kingdom to defend against the menace of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. When bin Laden grew confrontational, the Saudis withdrew his passport. Nevertheless, he made his way to Sudan, where he began to organize for global Islamic revolution...