Word: aftermaths
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...YORK CITY: The bloody aftermath of the Taliban coup in Afghanistan, AIDS and the devastating damage done to world fishing supplies by ecological problems were among the topics that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning stories this year. The big winner in the 81st annual Pulitzer Prize competition is the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which won the public service award and the Pulitzer gold medal for its series on threats to the world's fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today...
...brinkmanship during his first 300 days: three major crises in the peace negotiations; a war scare with Syria; a domestic political scandal that threatens to indict his closest aides for corruption; the alienation at one time or another of virtually all his friends, constituents and foreign allies. In the aftermath of Friday's blast, many were debating who bore the most blame and whether the peace process, already damaged goods, was now beyond repair...
Perhaps it is true that any university which values excellence is bound to produce a competitive atmosphere. Here at Harvard, the stakes are higher than the norm, and the competitors know it. However, no one seems to be concerned with the aftermath of our exciting little rat race. The reality of that aftermath is that we live in a place where even a snowball fight turns into a battle for supremacy. Many of our peers conciously sabotage the success of others even when it garners no gain for themselves. Harvard claims to produce the leaders of tomorrow...
Last week's Upton Street fire burned down eight houses, caused more than $1 million in property damages and displaced 16 families from their homes, but in its aftermath the Cambridge community is coming together...
...dismissed after only 20 months amid allegations of corruption and incompetence. The term that ended ignominiously in November began with her first re-election in 1993. Bhutto's removal was the fourth government dismissal in the past eight years, following 1988's first free election in the aftermath of Haq's military regime...