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...secure place. There are still blast walls and precautions and nerves, though of course 6½ million people live here, as they must. Maybe the numbers speak for themselves. On Feb. 19, 2008, Iraqi Body Count, one of the several contentious projects to record violent civilian deaths, reported 37 dead. On the same date a year later, as I arrived, it reported 9 dead, plus 17 bodies discovered in a mass grave for a total of 26. Amid whatever change has come, or is coming, these were the numbered dead...
...named Albert Banister worked in the boiler room at Cristobal and related how casually death appeared in conversations: 'Man died get blow up get kill or get drown during the time someone would asked where is Brown he died last night and burry where is Jerry he dead a little before dinner and buried so on and so on all the time...
Sometimes it's not just what is said that counts, but the way it is said. And if tone is anything to go by, the leaders of the European Union's largest economies are dead serious about cleaning up global finance markets. On Sunday, officials from eight E.U. countries wound up an economic summit in Berlin calling for tougher regulations on international financial markets-including secretive hedge funds and the tax havens they often rely on to do business. The question is: will the U.S., the biggest financial player in the world, ever agree to the binding international regulation...
...After an abysmal first half that left the Crimson down, 34-15, Harvard shocked all onlookers both on and off of the court by outscoring Princeton 39-16 in the second half and finishing with a 54-50 win. A seemingly dead Crimson team revived itself at halftime and orchestrated run after unanswered run in the final minutes of the game, each time sinking its teeth deeper into Princeton’s seemingly untouchable lead...
...made its free throws, Penn did not, and the team stayed intense and tough. This was none the more obvious than in Lin’s performance, as the junior standout battled to an amazing 12 points despite a serious ankle injury, which forced him to hobble at every dead ball.And on top of that, the Crimson was holding an ace in the hole—Housman. The guard lit up the Penn defense for 22 huge points on top of five assists, going 8-12 from the floor.“Everything becomes much more critical because you don?...