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...pattern of anonymous death threats by faceless armed groups, which some believe is designed to drive out middle-class Iraqis. Among the new arrivals in Sweden are hundreds of Iraqi Christians - including at least five priests - who say their tiny community is quickly vanishing. "My students threatened to kill me if I didn't graduate them, because I don't wear a head scarf," says a female engineering lecturer from Baghdad's University of Technology, one of hundreds who packed an Iraqi church service in the industrial town of Södertälje, southwest of Stockholm. Ali Hamid...
...Bloc Party’s melodies, a closer look at the lyrics reveals a discussion of England’s recent bus attacks and the ensuing terrorist witch-hunt: “The newscaster says the enemy’s among us / As bombs explode on the 30 bus / Kill your middle class indecision / Now is not the time for liberal thought,” The third track on the album, “Waiting for the 7.18,” mimics the pace of the first with another slow-paced intro—accented by glockenspiel and Okereke?...
...sweep of non-conference foe Endicott (5-4) for its first victory of the season last night at the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson’s middle hitters led the charge, as sophomore Brady Weissbourd and senior Andy Nelson combined for 22 kills and four blocks. “Look at them—they’re beasts,” said junior outside hitter Jordan Weitzen. “We always know they’ll come through. Our game plan is focused around the middle, and that’s why.” Still slightly...
...public. At least that was the going logic until August 1, 1981. At 12:15 a.m., MTV began broadcasting on the air and once again the sky was falling for radio. To unceremoniously hammer the point home, MTV chose to show The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” as its first music video. Clad in black pleather suits, the band members were only too happy to dance a funeral jig on the grave of radio. “Who wants to be a DJ when...
...reception we had expected from representatives of a country with whom ours is on a course to collision, possibly towards war. Iran suspects the U.S. is planning to attack it, while the U.S. suspects Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, and of arming radicals in Iraq who kill American soldiers. But the reception we got at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, of all places, suggests that Iran may be looking for a different sort of encounter...