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...only way she knows to exorcise her mental demons, to preserve what remains of her sanity. "There's so much inside here," she says, slapping violently against the side of her head. "I have to take some of it out and put it down somewhere, or I will burst." The effort seems to have taken over Nouman's life to the exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever A Prisoner | 5/4/2003 | See Source »

...thought a pipe had burst,” she said. “It seemed like oil coming out, it smelled like...

Author: By Alexander J. Finerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sprinkler Soaks Stoughton Room | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

...bubble burst prematurely last Saturday night at “Mather Lather”—proclaimed by organizers and attendees the largest House party in Harvard’s recent history...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker and Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Mather Lather Foam Party Ends in Bust | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Irish language tracks “Cuach mo Lon Dubh Buí” and “An Cailín Deas Óg,” the album’s real strength is its instrumentals. Arguably the group’s backbone, these tunes burst with the energy of live sessions, and their smooth melodic transitions—from fiddle to accordion to flute—speak to the players’ experience. The raucous reels of “The Low Highland” and the fantastic “Gweebara Bridge?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...Beijing's emergency plan may be backfiring spectacularly with SARS, which has burst out of China's national boundary to kill 119 people and infect 2,960 people worldwide by the end of last week. And even as the deadly pneumonia proliferates across the world--Africa is the latest continent afflicted with the bug--China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARS: Unmasking A Crisis | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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