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...weekend, we were very busy,” said Radwan Kheireddine, the store’s owner. “We’re definitely putting in more orders this week.” Kheireddine said that he had heard rumors about a calendar change from Harvard employees who frequent the store but did not realize that the majority of students would be back before Labor Day. “We want students to come, we wish they were here year-round,” Kheireddine said. The temporary shortage of cheap alcohol did not go unnoticed by Harvard students...
...Farrell and Munadi were captured by Taliban gunmen on Sept. 5 while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel tankers. The strike killed more than 90 Afghans and stoked outrage about the frequent deaths of Afghan civilians in coalition air attacks. Soon after the pair were grabbed, their newspaper opened up channels to Taliban commanders in Kunduz, the province in northern Afghanistan where the hostage-taking occurred. Officials from the International Committee for the Red Cross were in direct contact with the captors, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, as were sympathetic...
...cook? Not in 5½ years! I'm still eating out every other night, but that's out of necessity because of all of the publicity I've had to do for the book. I think that will change soon. I have never been a frequent or accomplished cook, but I look forward to doing it again...
...With enough cash to spend on such safety measures, wealthy Pakistanis can still easily escape the fear—and reality—of what Pakistan has become. The year-old democratic government is in shambles, suicide attacks are more frequent than ever, a nationwide energy crisis and a monetary crisis make international headlines, and both the encroaching Taliban and overbearing U.S. threaten to undermine Pakistan’s sovereignty—in short, the country is a mess. But at the Pearl Continental and other Western havens across the ailing state, it seems as if nothing is wrong...
...more planes alone won't be enough to prevent major fires in Greece and other fire-prone countries along Europe's Mediterranean rim. Marc Palahi, head of the Mediterranean office of the European Forest Institute (EFI) in Barcelona, says climate change is making fires in the region more frequent and more deadly, but governments won't be able to tackle them effectively if they keep pouring money into firefighting rather than tackling the root causes. "Every year it's the same problem," he says. "We're just crossing our fingers and hoping the weather will be mild, rather than actually...