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Sadr's political power appears to be growing even as the crisis wears on. A new report by Refugees International says the Mahdi Army ranks are swelling with new recruits drawn from internally displaced people who've gotten aid from the militia. "Displaced men have joined armed groups," said the report, which put the number of internally displaced people in Iraq at 2.7 million. "As a result of the vacuum created by the failure of both the Iraqi government and the international community to act in a timely and adequate manner, non-state actors play a major role in providing...
...Twenty-five years ago there were a couple dozen stores, at least. It’s just gotten harder and harder to sell books here,” said Jeffrey S. Flemming, manager of Harvard University Press Display Room. “Today we’ve sold more books than we have in the past several months since Christmas...
...don’t really know the causes. It’s sort of a chicken-and-egg question about whether you produce something people really don’t want to see or whether people don’t want to see it because they’ve gotten used to something much more superficial. I heard commentators all the time, almost with some embarrassment, explaining why it was that we were watching so many minutes of the determination of who Anna Nicole Smith’s baby’s father was—inconsequential to everybody?...
...wanted a Jewish playwright who really knows his stuff, you should have gotten David Mamet,” he joked, referring to his anxiety about lecturing in front the Harvard audience...
...Harvard Dance Program has made exceptional progress over the last four years alone. “Most dancers,” Schreier says, “never expected to get anything like this. Had I chosen to go onto dance in one capacity or another, it never would have gotten anywhere close to this...