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...Though the country has had something of an economic boom of late, the blush is off the rose. Prices are rising and blackouts common. Extremist groups have gained power-last week an Islamic court in the tribal areas sentenced and executed four people for adultery. Towns in the northern provinces bordering Afghanistan are run by a Pakistani Taliban that has shut down barbershops, girls' schools and polio-vaccination programs. In Islamabad, students from the fundamentalist Jamia Hafsa seminary have occupied a children's library less than a mile from the Parliament building. Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid mosque...
...faithful are no ordinary sports fans. Passion for the team is more than just a hobby; it is an invisible brand that instills a collective social identity into denizens of the Northeast. At first blush, Northampton hipsters share little in common with Nantucket preps, but they both kneel at the alter of Big Papi...
...confessional car, U.S. National teammate and Harvard junior Caitlin Cahow said that the water works came on a bit of a lighter note when the episode aired on March 25th.“As soon as we got to the boardroom scene, Angela became visibly irked and started to blush,” Cahow said. “Her eyes started to tear because she was trying not to laugh.”Fittingly, Ruggiero’s final episode aired on the same day that the roster for the 2007 Women’s World Hockey Championships was finalized...
...first blush, you can't blame them. The idea sounds not a little corny. On Tuesday, April 24, Idol contestants will sing what Fuller calls "emotive, moving, aspirational, triumph-over-adversity songs." In between renditions of, say, Bridge over Troubled Water and Man in the Mirror, there will be clips of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest's trip to Africa, Randy Jackson's trip to Louisiana and Paula Abdul's trip to Kentucky. When viewers call to vote for their favorites, sponsors will kick in some money for every vote cast...
...directly across from him and gaze intently into his face. Breathe heavily. When he wakes up, blush furiously and look flustered...