Word: april
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...Typically, investors buy gold when they are nervous about the state of the economy. But the latest price run started in earnest in April, just as the fears of the financial crisis were easing. Demand for gold has been rising. And inflation, despite the mounting economic recovery, looks to remain in check. That has many thinking the rise in gold is just another sign that the global economy is on the mend...
...Well, I guess you can say it started at Harvard in April when I had a debate with Congressman Barney Frank at the Kennedy School," says Joel Pollak '99, who is running for Congress. "I asked him a question, he lost his temper, and it turned into a very big thing. I got hundreds of Facebook messages and e-mails... I realized, 'Wow, people really wanted to challenge this person, and people felt like no one was speaking for them...
...April information session in Boylston Hall, Leopold emphasized that “this program was not designed for Harvard College.” Still, the 27 Harvard College students admitted represent an increase over last year’s number, when 22 entered the program...
...While in exile, al-Hakim's uncle and father formed the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) during the Iran-Iraq War. Al-Hakim's father returned to Iraq in April 2003, a year after the U.S. invasion, and the SIIC quickly rose to prominence there...
Doku Umarov, a separatist leader, declared in April that Riyad-us Salihin, or Guardians of the Righteous, a band of suicide bombers organized in the earlier part of the 2000s by now deceased radical separatist Shamil Basayev, had been revived after several years of lying dormant. In late June, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the President of Ingushetia, was severely wounded when his motorcade was bombed. In mid-August, Islamic extremists in Buynaksk, in Dagestan, attacked police at a sauna that also served as a brothel, killing four officers and seven prostitutes. Three days later, in Nazran, in Ingushetia, a suicide bomber...