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...Islam." And sometimes the conflicts turn ugly. The town's rebirth extends to the culinary arts: Ramallah has 20 top-class restaurants, all better than anything else in the West Bank or Gaza, including five that have opened just in the last six months. But restaurateurs can't always shut out politics. Darna is a popular, traditional Middle Eastern eatery, where bow-tied waiters serve loyal customers, including top Palestinian Authority officials. Last April, local gunmen who wanted to show their discontent with the government charged into the restaurant during a busy dinner period. As diners fled, the gunmen shot...
...service set up to facilitate the purchase of votes for the Undergraduate Council (UC) elections shut down early yesterday morning after no buyers entered the market.In total, 34 votes for UC were offered at prices ranging from $1 to $50, but none were sold, according to Aleksei Boiko ’06, who created the service.But concern about the prospect of trading votes for money led the Election Commission (EC) to meet with the three UC presidential candidates late Tuesday night. “No vote selling has occurred as far as the Election Commission can confirm...
...time. Prior to the 10 a.m. oral arguments, a group of six people protesting on behalf of GodHatesFags.com, an anti-gay website sponsored by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., picketed on the bottom stairs of the court while yelling epithets against homosexuals. “Shut your filthy mouths about your perversion or you’re going to hell,” one protester yelled, displaying a sign that read “Fags Doom Nation.” “Actually, you’re already going to hell,” another bellowed...
...from three to overcome those mistakes for the 72-63 win. “We just couldn’t guard tonight,” captain Matt Stehle said. “We were trying everything, and coach was trying everything. All the positions, one through five, no one shut down the man they were supposed to be guarding. We tried to switch it up [to the zone], and it didn’t really work too much.”reshman forward Evan Harris saw his first extensive action of the season and turned in a relatively strong performance...
...when I heard about the party this summer, that she was throwing it, the girl cracked open a door that had long been shut tight. I thought I really might break The Streak. Why not? I’d just turned 21, I wasn’t a kid anymore, and goodness knew I could stand to loosen up a little. More importantly, I felt like I’d been given a rare chance to revisit and possibly change the past—I’d be surrounded by the people I knew long ago, before...