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Although the plans need finetuning and await approval from the Corporation, one faculty member who has played a key role in devising it said that yesterday's vote represented an auspicious move for the fate of the renovations...
EVEN as some American troops await conflict in Saudi Arabia, others are participating in a less noticed and less hyped military invasion--right here...
...anxiously await administration budget proposals and call for an open and inclusive process...
While some of the Western hostages anxiously await chartered jets out of Baghdad, more than 70,000 refugees are trapped in a 43-mile-wide swath of no- man's-land between Jordan and Iraq. Largely from India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh, these refugees once worked in Kuwait at jobs the natives disdained: as drivers, waiters and maids. Though never wealthy, they earned good wages and had become accustomed to the air-conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested...
Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...