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...plan Sunday. Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia is heavily implicated in attacks on Sunni civilians, denounced the idea too. Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, followed suit Sunday and called for a halt to the construction of the barrier in the Adhamiya district, one of the last remaining Sunni enclaves in Shi'ite east Baghdad...
Frank—a Democrat representing Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district since 1981 and an outspoken supporter of Israel—spoke at “The Future of The Middle East: Israel, Iran, and The War on Terror,” an event organized by Harvard Students for Israel and the Harvard College Democrats...
...Thursday, according to news reports. The body of Daniel J. Barclay, 22, was found by a woman walking on Scussett Beach in Sandwich, MA., and was identified by Barclay’s mother on Friday, according to the Boston Globe. The cause of death was drowning. Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe told the Globe that the way in which Barclay drowned was still unclear. “There are no indications thus far that foul play is involved,” O’Keefe said. An MIT administrator released a statement Friday following Barclay?...
...ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding clerks for rudeness and managers for incompetence. And he became an absolute idol when he carried his campaign into the privileged office of the party apparatchiks. He dismissed two-thirds of the city's 33 district party secretaries and berated officials for wearing imported watches, suits and shoes. When, in a meeting, one of them asked truculently where he bought his own shoes, a furious Yeltsin yanked off a well-worn oxford, held it in the air and shouted: "In Sverdlovsk, locally made at the Ural...
Even if we could make valid inferences about these men’s character, it would be none of our business. They are public figures only because of the actions of a corrupt District Attorney and his police, media and faculty enablers. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has declared them to be “innocent,” and they deserve to return to normal, private life as much as possible. That includes having their private morality free from public scrutiny...