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...days later, her prayers were answered, according to the school's headmistress. Aman, together with some 70 other students and militants, died as the weeklong siege of the mosque and madrasah complex culminated in a final showdown lasting 36 hours. Few Pakistanis had supported the mosque-led vigilante campaign that kidnapped alleged brothel workers, threatened video and music shops selling "un-Islamic" material and declared a fatwa against the popular woman tourism minister who had been photographed hugging her parachute instructor. Still, the government's attack on the madrasah last July was widely condemned. The popularity of President Pervez Musharraf...
...here live at the Lavietes Pavilion for an Ivy League showdown between the Crimson and the Cornell Big Red. Harvard is coming off of a treacherous five game road trip (All losses), and is facing a Cornell squad who are slowly becoming the presumptive favorite to win the League...
...liberties against national security. On Thursday, House Democrats refused to hold a vote on a Senate-approved bill that would permanently expand the government's eavesdropping authority and grant immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the government monitor conversations in the past. With a stopgap law expiring Saturday, the showdown has set up a political battle likely to play out through the November elections - if both sides refuse to back down...
...reductions and credits passed into law last July has had little discernible impact on investment and jobs. Legislation that took hold in October allowing companies and workers to step around the legal 35-hour work-week limit hasn't done much to stiffen French work habits. And though his showdown in November with militant unions and striking transport workers over generous special pensions was hailed as an unprecedented success, Sarkozy still hasn't produced a final agreement to end that conflict, which could flame anew when talks on tightening general retirement schemes open this spring...
...season over the weekend.The Wildcats (5-3) squeaked out a 4-3 victory over the Crimson (2-2) on Saturday and the Cavaliers (7-0) overpowered Harvard, 6-1, on Sunday.Although Virginia’s win was convincing, Kentucky just slipped by the Crimson. The outcome of the Wildcat showdown was determined with two matches left to be finished, but the contest, which finished with two Harvard wins, ended up being a thriller on paper.“It was probably our best tennis of the year so far,” Crimson coach Dave Fish said...