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...forehead." Not long after, all the Sunni families on the street left Washash. One Sunni family found Shi'ite renters and handed the house over to them quietly. The other Sunni family gave its house to Shi'ite relatives. They were the last two Sunni families on a block that now, like most of the neighborhood...
...Africa's not-so-distant past should visit Constitution Hill. Until 1983 this was home to the[an error occurred while processing this directive] Old Fort Prison, where thousands of political prisoners once awaited trial. Today it has been partially preserved as a museum, but the old Awaiting Trial Block has been demolished, and in its place is the new Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land. It's the end result of a competition to "create a building rooted in the South African landscape, physically and culturally," and South African architects OMM Design Workshop and Urban Solutions have...
...expecting it, but we didn’t handle it the way we wanted to. We weren’t able to establish a flow in our offense, and they really swarmed our players on defense.”Harvard also could not get much going in the low block, as senior center Brian Cusworth, who had scored 20 and 24 points in Harvard’s first two games, respectively, was held to only six on 1-of-6 from the floor. Cusworth did grab a game-high seven rebounds.Harvard will look to return to the .500 mark...
...government. The government is already in crisis. Six pro-Syrian ministers quit last week after Siniora refused Hizballah's demand for a new government alloting the group and its allies one-third of the Cabinet posts, enough to give them effective veto power. Nasrallah wants to be able to block laws that could threaten Hizballah, such as a grant of increased powers to the expanding U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. But beyond this, the government suspects Hizballah will try to further the interests of its Iranian and Syrian backers. Far more is at stake than just another round...
Ironically, it is increased CDC funding mandated by Congress for high-profile threats like bioterrorism and flu pandemics that has drained money from areas of public health that may actually be more pressing. Among the hardest-hit programs: AIDS prevention (down 19%), tuberculosis control (down 16%) and preventive-health block grants for outbreaks of West Nile disease and other unexpected events (down...