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Wade used to claim he treated Seck, his Prime Minister from September 2002 to April 2004, "like a son." The younger man was widely seen as Wade's heir apparent. The breakdown in their relationship - culminating in Seck's seven-month stint behind bars on corruption charges Seck says were trumped up and which were later dismissed by judges - was widely seen as a power struggle between two ambitious politicians. But it also hinted at a generation shift in Senegalese society, repeated throughout much of Africa, where an increasingly restive youth are demanding representation and rights that older, less politicized...
...Pavilion. “It has made a big difference for us in terms of our longer plays,” said Crimson softball coach Jenny Allard. “We were always ready I felt offensively, pitching we were pretty good, defensively was a little more of a breakdown because we would have the infielders ready to go but the infield and outfield couldn’t work together. There wasn’t the space to do it.”The space issue aside, club teams are dead last when it comes to choosing practice locations...
...plot of “Pterodactyls” essentially results from the complete breakdown that occurs when these characters are all put together. Most wind up dead, and all wind up destroyed—and just to remind you, this is a comedy. Kline does an admirable job of keeping the pace snappy enough that there’s barely enough time for the shock of a given moment to register before the action has moved on. At the same time, Kline deftly slows down the action at the end for the more dramatic, but still unflinching, final scenes...
...door-to-door to remind their neighbors not to let strangers piggyback into the house.Ryan Spoering, the Lowell House resident dean, says that he thought the incidents were taking place because students were not being careful enough.“This particular incident [in Kirkland] was a breakdown of security and students need to be more mindful,” he says.STILL SAFEStudents say that while the recent trespassings are disturbing, they did not feel that the campus has become more dangerous.Diaz, the resident of the Kirkland room, says that having a trespasser try to steal from her room...
With the doubles point already in hand, Kumar and Ermakov came back from a breakdown at 2-5 to force a tiebreak at 7-7, in which they quickly fell to 5-1 before mounting a brief rally that fizzled...