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...would hold elections for the region's governorship?something Misuari denounced as a violation of the peace agreement; he sparked a new conflict in Jolo. Misuari fled to Malaysia, was extradited home, and is now in custody in a police camp outside Manila awaiting a trial. After the flare-up on Jolo last week, the rebels demanded their former leader be brought to the southern island of Sulu for trial. (Misuari could not be reached by TIME: his wife Tarhata said his guards had confiscated his cell phone.) The rebels also called for a withdrawal of the military from Jolo...
...celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros was playing when the fire broke out. City authorities said they could not confirm the cause of the blaze, but a number of witnesses said that it started when one of the audience launched a flare - widely available over the holiday season - at the ceiling. Survivors spoke of a stampede as desperate teenagers scrambled to escape from the flames and thick smoke. "People were pushing and jumping over each other...
...chronic problem that will continue to plague future tailgates: alcohol policy. There is no question that some serious miscommunications between the Dean’s Office, the Undergraduate Council and BPD over expected attendance levels and alcohol policy led to some of BPD’s post-Game flare-up. Captain Evans seemed shocked by the perceived omnipresence of hard alcohol. “People were just carrying jugs around with Jack Daniels, vodka and tequila,” he said. But the presence of hard liquor at The Game was directly attributable to Harvard’s ill-conceived...
...then there are the unnecessary whistles—the late hits, the obstructions away from the play, the tempers that flare in heated rivalries such as this weekend?...
...This has less to do with the vast underground spaces the exhibition commands at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until Dec. 12, or with the subterranean sheen of its bronzed walls, and more to do with the art. In the first of the rooms, figures flare up like handprints sprayed in ocher across cave walls. But mostly they dance. These figures are the mimih, the devilish rock spirits that are often seen cavorting with Dionysian glee. Well may they be mirthful...