Word: babil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indisputable highlight of the show came in the second half of the program, as Harvard dancers took to the stage for the entirety of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Using the choreography of Babil Gardera, the principal choreographer of the South Texas Dance Theater, Harvard dancers turned the Loeb Mainstage into a swirling, swarming arena of motion and light. Clad in bodysuits of various neon and tie-dyed colors, the dancers marched in perfect unison onto the stage in the opening number, "Speak to Me," like drones from a futuristic world where money clangs and clammers...
...indisputable highlight of the show came in the second half of the program, as Harvard dancers took to the stage for the entirety of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Using the choreography of Babil Gandara, the principal choreographer of the South Texas Dance Theater, Harvard dancers turned the Loeb Mainstage into a swirling, swarming arena of motion and light. Clad in bodysuits of various neon and tie-dyed colors, the dancers marched in perfect unison onto the stage in the opening number, "Speak to Me," like drones from a futuristic world where money clangs and clammers...
...Uday?s newspapers, Babil, today quoted President Clinton in a front-page lead as saying it was time to lift sanctions against Iraq. On page two, the newspaper admitted the report was "only an April Fools' joke. It is the beginning of spring. Many happy returns." Uday was once sentenced to death by his own father for clubbing to death one of the family?s retainers, and is alleged to have been involved in the killing of his own brother-in-law. In other words, when he makes a joke, it?s a good idea to laugh...
...founded in 1992, the congress included 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations. "The CIA financed the group but did not direct its activities," says an agency official. The I.N.C.'s main tasks were to gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents. Two years ago, it published a fake issue of Babil, the daily newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son Uday. The expertly counterfeited copy, distributed for one day in Baghdad, exposed many of Saddam's atrocities. The tactic backfired, however, because readers were more frightened than infuriated by the revelations...