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...Compounding the chaos is political paralysis. Many Bangladeshis say routine corruption morphed into rampant extortion after the 2001 parliamentary election, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power with the aid of fundamentalist Islamic allies. A wide cross-section of Bangladeshis, from prominent businessmen to shopkeepers to truck drivers, complains that the government has failed to crack down on lawlessness. "The general perception is that corruption has worsened under the present regime," says TI's Murshid. The rise in extortion and violence has led the opposition Awami League (AL) to organize repeated strikes to try to force the government...
...closed-circuit TV--offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns in an intimate setting to a tent gathering with roof-raising gospel singing. The hub is the cavernous worship center. Take away the 3,200 seats, the six-piece band, the suspended wooden cross and the giant video screens, and it could be a 747 airplane hangar. In booths outside, ministry leaders promote church workshops on marriage enhancement, parenting, budget planning and addiction recovery. At the children's center, Sunday school meets Fantasyland with a biblical-themed playground. Teens hang out at the student zone...
...Ogden Nash, Cornell Woolrich, S.J. Perelman and Ted ?Dr. Seuss? Geisel. Two more honorees, Leni Riefenstahl and Bob Hope, were still alive when they got reached triple digits, though they have since ceded to mortality. I used to unearth these milestones only when I?d hear of some media cross-promotion - a tributary rivulet of books, CDs or DVDs - which often meant playing hectic catch-up. Now I go to the Internet Movie Database at the start of a year and see whose centenaries are imminent. (Click on the birth year of any celeb, and you will find IMDb...
With under a minute left in regulation, fellow freshman Chelsea Grills attempted to cross the puck from her position on the far right side of the offensive zone. The puck bounced off a Harvard defender and right into the path of Connors, who was crashing the net. Unprepared for the strange bounce, sophomore netminder Ali Boe had her legs together in anticipation of the cross and could not kick out her left leg fast enough to get a piece of the shot...
Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said he thought moves to facilitate cross-registration could actually be counter-productive...