Word: dora
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...Christensen placed fourth at that meet.Now the junior joins an elite group of Crimson female athletes to claim victory at the Penn Relays, an event that boasts some of the strongest talent Harvard faces all year. Olympian Brenda Taylor ’01 and two-time high jump champion Dora Gyorffy ’01 are the only other Crimson women with a Penn Relay title.Christensen was one of only three athletes who cleared 179 cm at the Penn Relays this past weekend, earning victory by clearing the height on her first attempt. She had planned on resting during...
...young children. Last summer, as the final batch of 30,000 additional American troops requisitioned by General David Petraeus was arriving in Iraq, the bus driver and his family left their refuge in Syria to return home. It had been nearly two years since they fled their neighborhood, al-Dora, after al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists killed the wife and son of Hammadi's brother. His friends and fellow refugees in Damascus warned him that Baghdad was still too dangerous, with dozens being killed daily in sectarian tit-for-tat attacks. But Hammadi, 46, was counting on the increased...
Going back to al-Dora was out of the question: it would be six months before al-Qaeda in Iraq would be driven from the neighborhood. But in nearby Saydiyah, Hammadi found a family heading in the opposite direction--to Syria--and offered to live in their house as an unpaid caretaker. He borrowed some money to buy a dilapidated minibus. Ferrying kids to and from school brought him a meager $10 a day, but it was better than living off handouts from cousins in Damascus. His wife Shada, 30, supplemented the family income by baking bread and selling...
...government) from the men they once hoped to kill. They are nominally under American supervision but increasingly operate with a high degree of autonomy. The Sahwa are one part vigilante and two parts mafiosi, but like the walls, they too serve a purpose. In Sahwa-protected neighborhoods like al-Dora, Adhamiyah and Amariyah, sectarian killings are way down...
...plans. My parents are old so they cannot really move easily. In fact, one of the things that happened when they left Iraq, my parents, my mother, she didn't even go to the house that we were living in - the one that I left - because the area, al Dora, is so full of insurgents, it's almost no-man zone. No one can go there. So they left Iraq not even going to the house that they used to live in with everything there. They just left it. It was that dramatic. They just drove...