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This spring, Harvard drama will truly run the gamut: Curran Singh ’07 is offering up a show based on the infamous American abuses of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad. Blending dance, dialogue, and something Singh calls “aerial dance,” the Abu Ghraib Show draws directly on actual accounts of Abu Ghraib prisoners and guards...
...SUDAN U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply disturbed" by an attack near the town of Shangil Tobaya in the western Darfur region in which more than 100 people are believed to have been killed. African Union monitors said the Sudanese air force was responsible for the aerial bombardment, in breach of a truce agreed between the government and local rebel factions last year. Annan said the incident was "the latest in a series of grave cease-fire violations." The Last Word CHINA Thousands of mourners attended the tightly controlled funeral in Beijing of ousted Communist Party leader...
...Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone came with a load of grain...
...this suits him to play Howard Hughes, who was an enigma even more than he was a tycoon. A pampered rich kid, Hughes made millions in the aviation and hotel industries. As Hollywood's longest resident outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness...
...late summer's rays of hope have since been clouded, by a series of setbacks that appear to have reversed progress on every front. The most recent apparent breakthrough had come on November 10, when the government pledged to end its aerial bombardment of suspected rebel redoubts, the rebels promised to disclose their troop locations and both sides renewed their assurances of unfettered access to aid workers. Just two weeks later, in this dusty trading town precariously situated between government, rebel and janjaweed strongholds, those tentative steps toward d?tente collapsed, plunging Darfur into a new round of violence...