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...moved." Except for Heru (Jack) Kurniawan, 27, who saw Erwin struggling to get back to the riverbank. "It was obvious that someone had to do something or both of them would drown," he says. Handing his cell phone to a friend, Jack waded in and, "trying to avoid the dead bodies," paddled over to Erwin and the girl. When he lifted her onto his shoulder, she screamed in pain, and the men realized her foot was caught in a fishing net. It seemed to take an eternity to untangle...
...democracy," as they have done in numerous and often violent protests that ousted two Presidents since 2003. A MAS official even suggested last week that Morales would, if necessary, take power "by force," although the candidate quickly repudiated the remarks. Still, Bolivia's military this week encouraged Congress to avoid provoking an upheaval, with Army chief General Marcelo Antezana declaring that "the armed forces will support the candidate that the people choose...
...funded by the Prince’s gift, we are genuinely excited and grateful at his attempt to improve American understanding of Islam. As long as Harvard has the independence to use the gift in the way that it chooses—and with conscious prudence required to avoid homogeneity—Prince Alwaleed will have the satisfaction of having breathed new life into the study of Islam at Harvard...
...walk between the two areas, there are worse things to imagine than making it more difficult for Harvard students to avoid getting some fresh air and a bit of exercise. It’s not actually that far, you know, and with the exception of the worst of winter days, it’s quite bearable...
...conceding it fumbled its handling of post-war Iraq. Bush's action effectively gives the State Department control over an area that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his minions ran in post-war Iraq. But before nightfall Thursday, Rumsfeld was fighting back. "I think we ought to try to avoid the nation-building concept," the defense chief told a Pentagon audience. "We ought to think of it as creating an environment that is hospitable for those people to be able to build their own nation and to fashion it in a way that fits them. That's what's going...