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Thursday, Nov 29, 2001

reform school

"Following through on promises to curb religious extremism in the region, Musharraf is expected in the next week or two to impose strict new rules on the madrassas, or Islamic academies, some of which have nurtured young holy warriors for recruitment into Afghanistan's Taliban."

a snowballs chance

history of snowball earth

headline of the day

Dwarf Makes Pitch To Legalize Tossing

now cough

BERLIN (Reuters) - The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported Wednesday.

din of history

OSLO (Reuters) - The Viking god Odin may have been a real king who lived in what is now southern Russia 2,000 years ago, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl said in a controversial new book on Thursday.

so far away

hersh on iran
safire on iran

free wiily

wired williamsburg

general dismay

"It is amazing to me that Ashcroft is essentially trying to dismantle the bureau," said Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former FBI executive assistant director who was the primary architect of the FBI anti-terrorism strategy during the 1980s. "They don't know their history," he said, "and they are not listening to people who do."

all for one

"In a dazzling coup, Russian President Vladimir Putin stole a march on the Bush administration, which was so busy trying to tear apart Afghanistan to find bin Laden it failed to notice the Russians were taking over half the country."

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2001

summers end

"CAMBRIDGE - After a quiet few months as Harvard University's new president, former US treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers has begun using the post as a bully pulpit to forward a bold idea: In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the academic world should get more in line with mainstream Americans. "

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