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...earlier incarnation, Aidid was - and some say still is - commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen and a Marine who served in the first Gulf War, Aidid was a successor to his father, Mohammed Farah Aidid, the warlord who battled American troops in the Somalian capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this...
...eighth paragraph she denounces McCain as a hypocrite, presumably on fiscal irresponsibility and pork-barrel spending (or perhaps, again, for his being a pro-life conservative, cementing the author’s amazing ignorance on American conservatism) but on what evidence? She gives none, leaving the reader only with well-established facts: McCain was a lonely GOP voice and vote opposing Bush’s tax cuts because they were fiscally irresponsible. He has long opposed pork, and whether the author knows it or not, he was specifically referring to a infamous piece of pork in his reference...
McCain says the Republican Party needs to get back to its core ideals. He says fiscal irresponsibility and pork barrel spending (there will be no “Bridges to Nowhere” under his watch) have contributed to disillusioned voters. He says that “there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles.” Agreed. But McCain’s hypocrisy makes him unfit to implement the necessary realignment...
...local culture. The enormous titanium roof is sculpted in the shape of a flamenco skirt and tinged to match the pink and gold shades of vintage wine bottles. The 15,000-sq.-ft. spa has 14 treatment rooms and features, among other vineyard-inspired treatments, a Wine Barrel Bath. Caudalie co-founder Mathilde Thomas describes the entire visitor experience as "very elaborate, modern and beautiful." For his part, Gehry was particularly taken by the Beauty Elixir spray, a popular Caudalie classic...
...yesterday when the kitchen caught on fire—leaving inhabitants of the Co-op known for homecooked meals without a functional kitchen and with dining hall fare for the next few days. Residents use towels to clean the kitchen and put the dirty towels into a plastic barrel, according to Robert Byrne, facilities manager of Dudley House. “We believe some greasy towels that were just taken out of the dryer caught on fire due to spontaneous combustion,” Byrne said. Nine units from the Cambridge Fire Department responded immediately and confined the fire...