THE BIN LADEN DECADE

THE BIN LADEN DECADE By MICHAEL HASTINGS OSAMA BIN LADEN'S ACTIONS, AND OUR reactions to them, have defined my adult life. 1 was in New York City on September 11th, 2001, a senior in college. After the towers collapsed, I walked 95 blocks to get as close to Ground Zero as possible, so I could see first-hand the destruction that would define our future. By the time I got to Baghdad four years later, very few Americans believed that the people we were...

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PASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

PASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCESSearch Query:16 Aug 21:12:53 www.google.com.pk passive of conditional 3The grammatical rule underlying any passive transformation is based on the introduction of the auxiliary “be “ in all its tense forms , being present, past or future in addition to position shift between the subject and the object.This rule is applicable to any sentence where the verb is transitive.Let’s look at some examples.The...

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London Ablaze Panic on the streets of London

Panic on the streets of London.Tuesday, 9 August 2011Laurie Penny wrote Tuesday: “Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot be stopped, and they know it.”Posted by Penny Red - Laurie PennyI’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining...

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The PROTECT IP Act

Urge Congress To Reject The PROTECT IP ActWe're anticipating that a version of PROTECT IP will be introduced in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, so we've pulled together this video to remind the world about what makes it so awful. Please check it out and pass it on.PROTECT IP would give the government the power to force Internet service providers, search engines, and other "information location tools" to block users' access to sites...

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