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...Today, Mustafa’s room is sparsely decorated, Alon said, except for a Kurdish flag and a photograph of his father—“the only things he owns that he doesn’t let anyone touch or move...
...hope in the future for anyone who has ambition to do things. If you are there, you are so stuck with the system you either play with their rules or you are an outcast. Iraq at that time - you had every flexibility that you have here in New York except being able to say anything bad about the government. Here I can say whatever I want, no one is listening. But there you cannot. I've seen it with my own eyes that people disappear for no reason. In Iraq, no matter what you would have done at that time...
...Except that it doesn't. Banks and insurance companies are regulated; the credit swaps market is not. As a result, contracts can be traded - or swapped - from investor to investor without anyone overseeing the trades to ensure the buyer has the resources to cover the losses if the security defaults. The instruments can be bought and sold from both ends - the insured and the insurer...
...last weekend against Brown, Quinnipiac put on an offensive show and scored 14 goals in two games. And as the first period began, the Bobcats appeared as if they wanted to score another 14 this weekend. They matched the Crimson in all aspects of the first period—except goals.Harvard scored twice in the first period, which featured Watter’s first goal. Accepting the rebound from senior forward Alex Meintel’s blocked shot, Watters deftly slipped it into the goal from the left post as opposing goalie Bud Fisher struggled to get his bearings.The Crimson?...
...Beijing resident Richard Robinson, an American and a "plastic patty" - the bearer of an Irish passport thanks to an Irish grandfather - wore a cocked neon-green velvet top hat to complete his leprechaun outfit. Surveying the scene, he said, "This is the same as a parade anywhere else. Except it's more sober. And it's in China." David Sheridan, who had flown in along with his band, the Geantra? Players for which he plays the fiddle, thought the event showed a needed "bit of looseness in China." He liked something about the look of it. "There's great color...