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...headline-making but often entertaining docu-travelogue Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (henceforth acronymed as WITWIOBL), Spurlock resolves to comb the Islamic world in an attempt to locate al-Qaeda's CEO. Taking a cue from Hollywood action movies - that in impossible missions, where armies and statecraft fail, one lone hero can succeed - he travels to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking to and occasionally learning from street vendors, pundits, schoolkids, government officials and U.S. soldiers. To most of them he poses the simple question that is the movie's title. Will anyone...
...Uighurs in the provincial capital of Urümqi had been arrested in raids that uncovered plans to kidnap athletes and others attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics. An earlier report alleged that a young Uighur woman had tried to smuggle a bomb aboard a commercial aircraft in an attempt to bring it down...
...side. The people of Timor are on my side.' JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, President of East Timor, before returning to Dili, the nation's capital, to resume his presidential duties two months after being shot in a failed assassination attempt...
...what would become a lasting legacy to the dean’s office, Moses founded in 1979 the popular Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP)—a pre-orientation program that sends incoming freshmen on week-long wilderness trips in an attempt to ease the transition from high school to the College...
...tied the game three minutes into the second period, then turned around to assist Gibbons on his second goal of the game. Eight seconds later, Brown tied it up again.On the half, the Crimson outshot the Bears 17-8, won all but one faceoff and succeeded in every clear attempt. Harvard forced Brown goalie Jordan Burke to make seven saves but allowed four extra man opportunities to pass by. The score was an even, 3-3.After intermission, Caldwell came alive two minutes into the half but Gibbons and Duboe put up goals for the Crimson to go ahead for the second...