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...people who live along the 6,695 km of the world's longest river. From its origins in Ethiopia and in the rolling green hills around Lake Victoria in central Africa, the Nile and its many tributaries loop through 10 countries across half the length of the continent. Egypt, which has viewed the Nile as something like its private possession for centuries, has long drawn far more from the river than its southern neighbors. But ambitious new development schemes are beginning to change that. Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda are all either building or planning to build new dams...
...immigration assistance to its members and lying about a former associate's affiliation with the terrorist group. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. But though guidelines call for 46 to 57 months in prison, al-Arian, who was born in Kuwait and has some family in Egypt, will serve only a fraction of that time and then be deported to an as yet undetermined country...
...crimes, including coitus interruptus. “The big problem is not his own coitus that he was trying to interruptus—it was the coitus of all Israelites,” Harris said, referring to the killing of the Israelites’ first-born children in Egypt. When Harris said that Pharaoh’s motive was to react to “two professors who wrote about the Hebrew lobby,”— a reference to a controversial paper authored by Kennedy School Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University...
...maybe-I say it with the smallest of maybes-it is farther away." In many ways, 1952 might be called the Year of the Generals. The entrenched ones, like Stalin and Franco and Mao and Tito, held their familiar sway. Others came to power; in coups d'etat (Egypt's Naguib and Cuba's Batista), or in honest elections (Greece's Papagos and in the U.S., Eisenhower). The generals held the headlines; so much so that, to the hurried reader, the manner of a nation's defense too often seemed more important than...
...king, Egypt's fat and frolicsome Farouk, bundled unceremoniously off his throne without a single subject to raise his hand in protest. It saw another, King Paul of Greece, resoundingly rebuked at the polls fof daring to oppose his people in their choice of a new Prime Minister...