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...abilities were members of the audience. The idea that Cowell did not know exactly who Boyle was before she came on stage, what she was capable of, and how she might perform, is entirely unbelievable.The same goes for the contestant who is widely predicted to be her fiercest competition, 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi. If the concatenation of events that led to The Susan Boyle Phenomenon seemed slightly improbable, Jafargholi’s story approaches science fiction. Seconds into the young boy’s spot-on performance of Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie...
...some Iraqi men carried three national identification cards - one listing their name as Omar (a predominantly Sunni name), another as Ali (predominantly Shi'ite) and a third as Ammar (which can be either). Still, few families have trickled back to the homes they fled in areas that witnessed the fiercest sectarian cleansing by Sunni or Shi'ite militias. Can families forgive neighbors who may have directly or indirectly killed their loved ones...
...people. That sense is all the more acute because the audience knows how the story will soon turn out. The documentary was shot by two crews - one in Sderot and one in Gaza - between October and December last year, ending just four days before Israel unleashed on Gaza its fiercest bombing campaign in decades. The attack left an estimated 1,300 Palestinians dead and sent residents in nearby Sderot scrambling into underground shelters. But the subjects in Gaza-Sderot remain blissfully unaware of the looming disaster; there is little talk of politics at all. Instead, people go about their humdrum...
...halt its counterinsurgency operations and the government caved in to the militants' demand for the imposition of Islamic law. Then it emerged that the Taliban and the army would both be observing a four-day truce in Bajaur, the tribal area along the Afghan border that has seen the fiercest fighting in Pakistan's domestic campaign against extremists. And on a more ominous note, last weekend at an undisclosed location deep in Waziristan's mountains, Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud forged a new alliance with two rival commanders who had been fighting him with backing by the government...
While the Crimson has enjoyed success against some of the fiercest competition in the nation in recent seasons, Harvard hasn’t taken a victory over the Wildcats in over five years...