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...late Wednesday night the news was spreading fast: another aging autocrat was on his way out in a former Soviet satellite. Late last year it was Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia. This time, it was Aslan Abashidze, for the past 13 years the authoritarian boss of Ajaria; an autonomous republic in Georgia's southwest corner. "It's over," said Givi Targamadze, chairman of Georgia's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security. "The only thing that remains to be seen is who will come from Moscow to take Mr. Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security...
...Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Rejecting the charges, Bulgaria, the E.U. and the U.S. led the international condemnation of the sentence. The defense argued that poor hygiene in a hospital in the northeastern port city of Benghazi had caused the spread of the virus. The verdict in the five-year-long case comes at a sensitive time for Libya, which has been seeking to rehabilitate itself internationally. The medics have the right to appeal...
...report quickly spread by cell phone: Harvard would face Quinnipiac in the first round and, with a win, continue on to play the winner of the Tulane-Notre Dame matchup...
Readers form “street-teams” to spread Found’s message. Kari Patch of the Harvard Bookstore finds the show inspiring. “It’s a lot of fun,” Patch says. “You always learn something new about the randomness of the human thought process...
Unleashed last Friday, Sasser.B is a new version of an old worm. This new worm is transmitted directly from the internet. It does not spread through e-mail or attachments and requires no user intervention to spread...