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...addition, the building that houses the Center for European Studies at Harvard is named Busch Hall, after the Busch beer brewing family, Mulcahy said. The founders of rival American brewing company Harpoon Brewery were also both graduates of Harvard...
After throwing for 312 yards two weeks ago against Holy Cross, Dartmouth sophomore quarterback Conner Kempe completed just eight of 22 attempts for 75 yards and threw an interception against Columbia last week. The sophomore, who is replacing injured senior Alex Jenny under center, did find the endzone twice...
...Today, Stone Town is the historic center of the present capital, Zanzibar City, and is a UNESCO World Heritage area. The showpiece is the waterfront, a line of whitewashed palaces and forts beside clear, green waters. Here the British Old Dispensary sits next to Portuguese cannons, a fort built by Omani Arabs, and the Victorian clock tower of the Beit al-Ajaib - the first building in Africa with running water, electricity and a lift...
Under a blistering sun, the tribesmen queue impatiently for attention. Sweat drips from their head as they attempt to edge closer to the doors of the refugee registration center in Dera Ismail Khan, on the edge of the tribal areas in northwest Pakistan. As time slips by, so does their restraint. Waving angry fists with one hand and clasping their documents with the other, the group of men heaves toward the doors. Police officers on duty scatter the unruly crowd with forceful swings of their long bamboo sticks...
...President Obama. So an air of menace could help Philipp Rösler, Germany's new Health Minister, in his quest to shake up the country's expensive public health-care system. At 36, the Vietnamese-born politician is the youngest member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right coalition government and the first Asian ever to be appointed a German cabinet minister. Softly spoken and affable, he certainly doesn't seem like a political bruiser. But rumor has it that no one dared challenge him when he attended Catholic school in Hannover because they thought he was some...