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...Neha Chauhan ’08 had a million dollars, she wouldn’t buy a K-car, elephant bones, or anything else from the Barenaked Ladies song. Chauhan would donate it to the FINCA, a microfinance institution that provides loans to impoverished entrepreneurs—and she plans to do just that. Chauhan is scheduled to start fundraising toward her goal on Jan. 1. “I think you can take any idea and bring it to completion,” says Chauhan. “I think it’s important for anyone to think...
...general in the Lebanese army was killed early Wednesday when a powerful car bomb exploded beside his vehicle in a residential suburb of Beirut...
...General Francois Hajj, the chief of operations in the Lebanese army, died instantly along with at least four other soldiers. The blast from the 77-pound bomb packed inside a BMW hurled Hajj's body more than 100 yards from his car and damaged nearby buildings in the upscale Baabda district close to the presidential palace...
...That's especially true, authorities say, given the tactics employed by AQIM. Signature attacks have alternated smaller strikes on police and military outposts with major operations like the double car-bombing of government buildings last April that killed 33. Targets have been mixed between symbols of the Algerian state whose location also assures civilian casualties, and hit-and-run attacks on employees and infrastructure of foreign businesses. Tuesday's bombing showed an intersection of those variables, with the first massive explosion rocking the Algerian constitutional and supreme courts; and the second badly damaging the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees...
...group's Middle Eastern tour is also getting a lot of laughs out of foibles better known to locals. Some of the funnier bits included: "When Arabs hook up they never say 'Your place or mine?' They say, 'Where are your parents, and how big is your car?'" Or, on how an Arab version of the TV game show The Price Is Right! should be called, "This Price Is Not Right!" When the group arrived in Jordan, the first time a stand-up troupe had ever preformed in the kingdom, the comedians were surprised to discover that much of their...