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...family, then went to check on a friend on the other side of town. Minutes later, the waves struck, washing away everything Hidayat held dear: his wife and two children, his house and every cent he ever earned. Some 167,000 Acehnese were killed by the great tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, far more than anywhere else...
Under Stone’s guidance, the Crimson has cruised through this season to a 32-1-0 overall record, with its sole loss coming on Dec. 14 against New Hampshire. Harvard was also perfect in conference play, accumulating a 22-0-0 record...
Indeed, Friday night’s goal total and margin of victory were the biggest since Harvard defeated Yale 12-1 on Dec. 11, 1993 and matched the largest winning margin of the tournament’s history. But perhaps the statistic that best underscores the team’s transformation was that the Crimson scored one more goal on Friday night than it did for the entire month of December...
...Many of the 250 households gave up and left. But the 15 or so holdout families were still unprepared for the appearance of a hundred or more police and demolition workers in hard hats on Dec. 12. They were bundled out of their homes and those who resisted were beaten with clubs and iron bars. Then, as they watched from a nearby hilltop, demolition backhoes clanked up and began attacking the walls of their houses like huge, mechanized woodpeckers. By the end of the day, nothing but rubble remained. "They beat me all over," says a 52-year-old farmer...
...ethnic political violence that convulsed Kenya after disputed elections on Dec. 27 shattered the nation's image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. Perhaps no one was more shocked - or had more to lose - than members of Kenya's middle class, who seemed comfortably ensconced in Westernized modernity after more than 40 years of economic growth without major political trauma. They watched as ethnic clashes left more than 1,000 Kenyans dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, and as those decades of hard-earned economic progress threatened to unravel. The violence had assumed an unsettling...