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...early evening bombing occurred along a narrow road between the southern Lebanese towns of Khiam and Marjayoun, four miles north of the border with Israel. An armored vehicle carrying Spanish UNIFIL troops was struck by a suicide car bomb that blasted the vehicle off the road and set it on fire. Six soldiers died in the blast and two others were wounded, according to UNIFIL. Near the UNIFIL vehicle was the twisted wreckage of a civilian car containing human remains. An initial report that the explosion was caused by a powerful roadside bomb was later discounted in favor...
...only eight college players to make the final roster, Akpan’s road was particularly difficult due to the amount of depth at the forward position. Although he managed to score a hat trick against Haiti during qualifying, his spot on the roster wasn’t a sure thing, as he failed to receive significant starting time for the rest of qualifiers. Subsequent performances in international friendlies—he notched a goal and an assist against Canada—helped boost Akpan’s stock, and consequently, his position on the U-20 team...
...Lemaster Carlyle, the icily principled president of a Yale-esque university, and his mercurial wife Julia, a dean at the university's divinity school. They are, yes, rich and members of what they call the "darker nation." One snowy night they discover a corpse by the side of a road. It is that of Kellen Zant, a faculty member, also Julia's former lover, also black...
...worry about things you can't control. For now, all of the announced Presidential candidates are locked in fierce trench warfare trying to secure their positions on the general election ballot as their party's nominee. Wondering how to beat Michael Bloomberg will wait for another day, down the road and a million political years away...
...village of Pilani, and you will find yourself in the hometown of the Birlas, one of India's most legendary business families. The Birlas and the Mittals, as well as countless other Marwari clans, share a common history. From the 19th century onwards, when the ancient Silk Road that crisscrossed Mandawa began to be eclipsed by the steamship and the railway, the Marwaris fled the desert for the flourishing tropical port of Calcutta. There, many amassed fortunes, initially as speculators in opium, sugar and jute in the choked northern bazaars of the city. After World War I, some began...