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...Sitting in the Ottoman-style grandeur of the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem before a show, Hanania and Waraday trade politically incorrect jokes about the belief, popular among suicide bombers, that 72 virgins await the martyr in paradise. "And what do the women get?" muses Waraday, recalling that a 57-year old Palestinian grandmother recently blew herself up. "What would they possibly have told this woman - that she'll have 72 kids who'll call every day and visit once in awhile? I know my Mom would blow herself up for that...
...hospital to flee. "Only my senior [doctor] is left," she says. Raya sits in a government asylum office in a Stockholm suburb, surrounded by her two small children and five other family members who have fled with her. Days after abandoning their large family house and garden, they now await a bus to take them to a refugee camp two hours from Stockholm. This group alone represents a significant loss of talent for Iraq: Raya's 24-year-old sister is a doctor who recently graduated second in her medical school class, her brother is a construction engineer who worked...
...Troy tomorrow evening. The steps that the squad is trying to make in preparation for the postseason, therefore, may go unnoticed until the Crimson again has the chance to challenge one of the country’s best teams. That test may await on Tuesday at No. 9 Boston College in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament, but, with six conference tilts left and only one against a team with a winning record, it could lie as much as a month in the future. “We have to take one at a time, play better than...
...match was stopped and Ogunwole’s triumphant final campaign came to a sudden halt. Now the heavyweight and his team await the results...
...Charles Roselli of Oregon Health & Science University has killed about 55 sheep, homosexual and heterosexual, in order to study the neurological basis of sexual attraction. They have confirmed that test sheep are gay by allowing them to pick among males and females that have been restrained in stanchions to await sexual intercourse...