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...Things could have turned out quite differently for Dobroshi. As a teenager in war-torn Kosovo, the odds were stacked against her. She talks about a day in 1999 when gunmen stormed a bar in Pristina and opened fire. Almost all the customers, including one of Dobroshi's professors at the Pristina Academy of Arts and a good friend of hers, also an actress, were shot dead. Another friend survived with a bullet in her head...
...freshman pitcher Marika Zumbro ran into trouble when she entered the game in the fifth inning. North Texas opened the inning with three straight hits and rolled from there, scorching Zumbro for six hits and seven runs in two-thirds of an inning.Moore came in to put out the fire, but the Mean Green would plate two more unearned runs before the inning was over.HARVARD 3, KANSAS 2Harvard opened its season in dramatic fashion Saturday afternoon, with junior Melissa Schellberg singling home sophomore Ellen Macadam for the walk-off win.Macadam laced a double to left field, and advanced to third...
...general consensus has been that she acted wisely in seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The mutiny began in the early hours of Feb. 25, with sounds of gun-fire heard coming from the BDR headquarters in the heart of the capital Dhaka, where some 4,000 BDR troops were gathered, along with approximately 160 officers (temporarily asigned from the army to command the border security force). The occasion for the convocation was a durbar, or gathering of troops, the previous night. After over 24 hours of intense negotiation and the offer of a general amnesty - followed...
...sinking into its worst recession in generations, but China is on a wild shopping spree. Sitting some $2 trillion of cash reserves, Beijing is taking advantage of the woes of others to cement its grip on new sources of commodities ranging from olive oil to crude oil -often at fire-sale prices...
...more concern to Israel, perhaps, is the fact that Kerry's visit highlighted the crumbling of the U.S. and Israeli effort to isolate Hamas inside its Gaza ghetto. Not only did the Islamist organization survive the Israeli incursion aimed at smashing its military capability (sporadic rocket fire from Gaza continues even now); it took advantage of the fog of war to mop up what remains of its rival Fatah movement in Gaza. And as the international effort to rebuild Gaza gathers momentum, it confronts the inescapable political fact that nothing can be done in Gaza without the consent and cooperation...