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...next paragraph. If you want to transport to any other year in this millennium, go to the third paragraph.Under super-competitive coach Phil Estes, Brown is an improving team with a lot of pride. With Zak DeOssie in the middle of their defense, the Bears have a chance to shut down Penn’s rushing attack and send the Quakers on a season-ending losing streak. Paced by a defense that ranks towards the top of the Ivies in the major statistical categories, Penn is guaranteed to be in the thick of things until the final weekend. The team...
...Shut the (expletive) up,” the diva wailed. She was not going to let anyone criticize her partisan comedy bit. Moreover, she didn’t care whether she was entertaining her audience...
...worse time. What should have been a day of joyous celebration has instead turned into a time of high anxiety as American troops conduct house-to-house searches. The shops and businesses that line the neighborhood's two main roads, known as "Karrada In" and "Karrada Out," are shut on what should have been their busiest day of the year...
...many residents of Baghdad would normally have made a beeline for Karrada's shops, where they can buy everything from large-screen TVs and air conditioners to garments and sweets. In anticipation of a spike in demand, many shopkeepers had doubled their inventory. But because the neighborhood has been shut off by U.S. and Iraqi forces, shoppers are taking their business elsewhere, much to the chagrin of Karrada's business community. "In a good year, as much as 20% of my annual income would have come from the first couple of days after Ramadan," says Mohammed Abdel-Jaffar, who sells...
...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...