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...Cheney unleashed foreign intelligence agencies to spy at home ... It is unlikely that the history of U.S. intelligence includes another operation conceived and supervised by the office of the vice president." When the Deputy Attorney General refuses to re-authorize the program, the stubbornness of Cheney and his team almost leads to mass resignations at the Justice Department...
...JAMA study included incontinence and pelvic-organ prolapse, the result of pelvic muscles so weakened that they can't hold organs, such as the uterus, correctly in place. Of the women who reported any symptom of a pelvic-floor disorder, 16% experienced urinary incontinence, 9% reported fecal incontinence and almost 3% had symptoms of pelvic-organ prolapse. Those numbers increased with age: At least one pelvic-floor disorder affected almost 10% of women aged 20 to 39, 27% of those 40 to 59, 37% of women aged 60 to 79 and almost half of all women over...
That delicate mix of comedy and tragedy is something Ayckbourn hit upon almost from the beginning. "When I started in weekly rep, we did a different play every week," he says. "I became aware of a pattern that was evolving - we would do a comedy, then a thriller and then a serious play. With the comedy, all the lights came up to full. And everyone was very, very loud and terribly fast. And in the serious plays, it was positively dark, and everyone was talking very quietly. And I thought, I'd love to write a very, very slow comedy...
...class of 2011. After being admitted, the 2006 No. 1 junior epeeist in the world decided to defer for a year to attempt to qualify for Beijing. She now joins the community as a member of 2012.“For me, Harvard, getting here, being here is almost as big as going to the Olympics was,” Mills said. “Being from Israel, it’s a different experience. I was really excited to come here.”For Cross, who is returning just to finish her final year, Harvard provides a welcome...
...among Ghanaians, the issue of who comes from slave ancestry and who comes from free families is rarely discussed, although sometimes these histories dictate modern social niches. While this “culture of silence” is not absolute, it is powerful. For example, a detailed search through almost 50 years worth of undergraduate theses and dissertation titles in the history department at the University of Ghana at Legon yields only a handful of major academic papers that addressed enslavement...