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...Sweden. Suad Turky, a 29-year-old Shi'ite religious student from Baghdad, paid a smuggler $10,000 to secure a false passport and a ticket to Stockholm via Turkey. She says she does not know what nationality passport she was issued. Last month, her cousin Mona Ahmad, a primary school teacher, took the same route, after two teachers at her school were kidnapped. "There is constant danger in Iraq, especially in Baghdad," says Turky. "Nobody can live there...
...Harvard population probably can’t distinguish between Hilles, HOLLIS, and Hillel. One need only walk the halls of Hilles’ upper floors to see that they are, indeed, desolate, and the café is anything but brewing with the social bustle of its faraway cousin in Lamont...
...have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told. For me, the role was really about preparing emotionally. I just sunk myself deep into the horrors of war. I walked around thinking about it every day. So many of the soldiers were so young. A lot of them were 15 and 16. After a couple of weeks of focusing on that that, you find...
...trope of late. He's in novels, movies, magazines and on TV, flaunting his Uzi like a giant foam hand at a baseball game. He's in the latest James Bond movie and The Last King of Scotland and is the key plot point of Blood Diamond. His American cousin was on the most recent season of HBO's The Wire. The Gorillaz have a song about him. The Onion.com has a parody...
...Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong. "Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Still, Zhang insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang...