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...main cities, well-wishers donated tents, blankets, food and even cloth for burial shrouds. Among the first responders were militant Islamic groups, who seized on the catastrophe to blame Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. in the war on terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved us when nobody came from the government," says a survivor, Ali Geelani, 28. "Musharraf has given us the earthquake; they have given...
...stone houses of Safal Bandi in Pakistan's remote Swat Valley have changed little over the past century. The only indication of the passage of time is a series of dates, six weeks apart, chalked on the door of each house. Parwanna Begum steps from behind one of those doors and adds today's date to the list, followed by a fraction: 2/3. Out of three children under the age of five in the household, Begum, a local health worker, has vaccinated two against polio. The third is out playing. Begum will have to come back tomorrow, because one child...
...collegiate record-holder explained that the Russians developed their fantastic skating habits from the Czechs, who had the game years before the Soviets. "The Russians first learn to skate by playing a game called 'bandi.' It's similar to field hockey and played with sticks like field hockey sticks on an ice rink as big as a soccer field...
...Harkness Jr. '24 defeated P. S. Hasseltine '22 and J. E. Caclson 2S.A., 7-5, 5-7, 6-1; J. D. Farnham '23 and C. W. Farnham '24 defeated A. Barker '25 and C. T. Martin '25, 6-2, 8-6; G. B. Manning '25 and L. Bandi '25 defeated J. G. Swift Jr. '22 and F. A. Warren Jr. '24 by default...
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