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...trying to feed him cassava roots crushed into a paste. Another child lies limp on the floor, her belly bloated from hunger. Their mother, unable to produce breast milk, was, says Va Char, out in the jungle searching for food. Outside the hut lies another child, too weak too pull himself out of the dirt...
...62nd minute, the Crimson had a chance to pull within a goal of the Chanitcleers after CCU’s Kevin Van Den Berg was sent off with a red card. The penalty came as a result of Van Den Berg’s slide tackle from behind on junior midfielder Nicholas, according to several Crimson players. Despite the extra-man advantage though, Harvard’s improved offense were still unable to find the back...
...time high, and President Bush is largely responsible for that. I don't think creating hundreds of new terrorists every day is an effective policy for dealing with terrorism. Douglas E. McCulley Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. How many times have we heard that al-Qaeda wants to pull off an attack in the U.S. before the elections? Terrorists carried out coordinated bombings in Madrid on March 11, and the Spanish candidate challenging the Prime Minister in the March 14 election - the candidate whom terrorists surely preferred - won. Ask yourself which candidate al-Qaeda wishes to become the next U.S. President...
...sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even Hamas, which earlier in the week claimed responsibility for a deadly double bus bombing in Israel, and an aide to Iraq's rebel Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the men's release. The reporters were on their...
...flashlights we tucked in our bags for fear of a blackout were never used. And for all the anguish over our alleged lack of antiterrorism chops, the Games came and went without the slightest scary incident. I'll admit it: even some Greeks didn't think we could pull it off. In fact, the Games' organizers have yet to find a compelling explanation for how we did it. "It doesn't matter," one of them told me, "We just did it!" Here's one reason: more than a million Athenians - or around a fifth of the city's population - basically...