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...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...
...hurt either. Sixty-five years ago, we declared war against Japan and Germany, and we fought that one tenaciously and decisively and won it conclusively. We did not send the same message before hostilities began with either Iraq or Afghanistan, and there we drift and dither still. Now, we await commissions and coalitions to help extricate us from the shambles Iraq has become and achieve the stable state that Afghanistan could still be. Knowing what we were getting into in the beginning - and saying so out loud - might have helped spare us and the world a lot of pain...