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...sticking around, and dragged empty shipping containers into the road to block Chaudhry's way. In Islamabad, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reminded one reporter that the government had the constitutional right to declare a state of emergency in such situations, prompting an editorial in the respected English-language daily Dawn to scold that the government "would be well advised not to opt for an emergency declaration. It if does, the regime itself would be the loser, because it is unlikely that a declaration of emergency will be able to contain the current wave of demonstrations...
...Dawn J. Mackey ’09, a Crimson editorial comper, is a biomedical sciences and engineering concentrator in Dunster House. She is the grandniece of John Mackey...
...murder, rape, penury - in Swift's previous novels. And yet, despite its frustrating lack of world-class tragedy, there is something doggedly compelling about Tomorrow. Even when you know what's coming, the way Swift uses dialogue, weather, flashbacks, foreshadowing and sheer finesse to get Paula straight through till dawn - without sounding like a nattering neurotic - is impressive. It's like watching a 19th century master at the top of his form, using yesterday's winches and grommets to build today's world. Who cares what tomorrow may bring...
...colony flourished, its Powhatan neighbors became alarmed. Trading posts were one thing, permanent farms another. On March 22, 1622, the new leader of the Powhatan, Opechancanough, launched dawn raids on 28 plantations and settlements along the James River, killing 347 colonists, a quarter of the total population. Jamestown itself escaped, warned by an Indian boy who had converted to Christianity. "Besides them they killed," a survivor lamented, "they burst the heart of all the rest." Dispirited and disorganized, hundreds more colonists died the following winter, the second "starving time...
...came here in the early 80s, or I guess late 70s-early 80s, which was a terrible time to be a Russian immigrant,” he said. “Being a kid, there were all those movies out—‘Red Dawn,’ ‘Red Hampster,’ ‘Red German.’ Kids hated all things Russian. At my Hebrew School in Queens, I pretty ironically introduced myself as being from Berlin.” Like Shteyngart, Misha wishes for detachment from Russia, so when...