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...died or as he was dying or after he’d gone up, and, Daddy, I didn’t mind the mourning thing, I just don’t think I can keep it up any longer.I bet I would’ve said all that. Except right then Daddy had to say, “It only took a few days of knowing your mother before I was dumb with caring. We weren’t even courting and I was sick for her.”Now I sure as shooting couldn’t tell...
...High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Human Rights Watch and several other local and international groups have been pushing Sri Lankan authorities for months to open up access. On Jan. 10, the Sri Lankan government instead turned several of the camps into "high-security zones," off limits to everyone except the U.N. and the Red Cross. A recently disclosed proposal to set up "welfare villages" where up to 200,000 IDPs could be kept for as long as three years was condemned by human-rights groups and opposition leaders; but this kind of treatment is a reality...
...Nick Batter ’09 is a mild-mannered college senior, studying history in Dunster and working on his thesis. But by night, actually by night he’s pretty much the same. Except Tuesday nights when he draws cartoons for the Wednesday edition of The Crimson...
...bitter experiences faced by countries like Sri Lanka during the colonial past—often lead such governments to take extreme precautions to ensure no covert foreign force creeps into their internal politics again. This was evident in Sri Lanka when the government ordered all non-governmental organizations except the International Committee of Red Cross to leave rebel-held areas in September 2008. This action was taken after Sri Lankan authorities learned that several NGOs had wittingly or unwittingly given material aid to the Tamil Tigers...
...first but missed the second, giving Harvard the ball, down two, with twenty seconds left.The final Crimson possession saw both Berry and Tay try to create room for their own shot. The ball wound up in the hands of the freshman point guard, and Berry did everything right except get lucky. Despite the Harvard bench and fans screaming for a foul, the no-call on Berry’s runner with two seconds on the clock essentially sealed the Crimson’s fate.The final miss seemed an unjust ending yet again for Berry, who finished with 14 points...