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...interior also appeared to be deteriorating. UNHCR recorded a dramatic increase in the number of refugees crossing into Pakistan, fleeing what they described as harassment by other ethnic groups. Many of the estimated 20,000 new refugees were Pashtuns from the north of the country. Others were fleeing drought...
...eleventh straight season, the Harvard men’s basketball team was swept on its weekend road trip to perennial league powers Penn and Princeton, likely prolonging Harvard’s Ivy title drought for another year...
...International Security Assistance Force that will eventually number 5,000 arrived in the war-torn city. Increasing stability inside the country is expected to make it easier for humanitarian aid to reach the thousands of Afghans displaced by 23 years of civil war and four years of drought. Even before the recent fighting about 25% of Afghan children died before the age of five and half of all under-fives were believed to be underweight. The British charity Save the Children estimates that up to 100,000 children could die this winter unless sufficient aid reaches the country. Even though...
...that his time at the top might be coming to an end, that he should prepare the country for the day he can no longer be the player they want, and maybe need him to be. During the late '80s and early '90s, when he went through a title drought, he felt the pressure. "Everyone in the Philippines expects me to win. They think I should never lose...
...news out of the democratic people's republic of korea hasn't been great for, oh, five decades or so. And lately it's only getting grimmer amid drought, floods, widespread human misery and the ever-removed antics of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. But Pyongyang's propaganda machine?now on the Net!?bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited...