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...News of the attack traveled around the country in minutes. Shortly after six o'clock, when Sayed Muhammad Ibrahim, a former soldier and an expert on security issues, was on his way home, he heard that several hand grenades had been flung at the rally in an apparent attempt to kill Hasina and the entire leadership of her Awami League party. The initial reports were unclear about Hasina's fate. Ibrahim, a decorated hero of his country's war of liberation in 1971, shivered. "I thought to myself, what will happen to my country now, what will happen...
...clock in the morning, after Paul Hamm won the first individual all-around gold medal in the history of U.S. men's gymnastics, after he waved the hardware for the cameras and took a long, drawn-out drug test, he finally talked to his parents from the athletes' Village. Mom was not in a coddling mood. "Paul," said Cecily Hamm, who raised three gymnasts, including Paul's twin brother and fellow Olympian Morgan, "you put us all through hell tonight." They had a laugh at that one. "Mom, listen," he responded. "I put myself through hell...
...forces under clerical control. Iraqi officials insisted the militia had to be disbanded but offered to let the movement join the political process. Al-Sadr did not even bother to attend the talks and told al-Jazeera television Saturday morning that the interim government must resign. After round-the-clock sessions, negotiations broke down Saturday evening. The talks, concluded al-Rubaie, had been going nowhere...
...complicated and for the rich, instead applying French techniques generously and sloppily to local American ingredients. She flambeed with insouciance. And unlike most other revolutionaries, she had a sense of humor. She was famous at her alma mater, Smith College, for her practical jokes, like placing an alarm clock inside an organ and setting it to go off during an assembly. For Smith, that's pretty good stuff...
...make it easier for them to arrive promptly and calmly, says a study from the University of Pittsburgh. Biologically, night owls find it tough to wake up on time, and their hectic mornings can throw off the rest of the day. Night owls who want to adjust their body clock may be able to do so by maximizing exposure to morning sunlight, wearing dark glasses in the hours before dusk and gradually shifting to an earlier bedtime...