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...after Khan took office as mayor, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale slammed into the Himalayas, killing more than 73,000 people in Pakistan. Batagram was one of the worst-hit towns. That morning, Khan had strolled up a dirt path to visit his mother's grave when the force of the quake hurled him to his knees. "I thought it was doomsday, that the earth would open and swallow me up," he says. "The houses on the ridge--they were exploding...
Thirty-three months and 2,155 American military deaths ago, a somber President Bush addressed the nation in prime time from the Oval Office and announced that the nation's military had begun ?to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger? from "an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder." On Sunday night, Bush made his first Oval Office address to the nation since then, and was in the extraordinary position of admitting that the war is difficult, while arguing that we?re not losing. He went...
...Sunni lists, the National Agreement Front, announced during the day that they had accurate information, including names and account numbers, about factions planning electoral fraud. And not everyone voted. Om Saad was one who refused to go to the polls. Her daughter is lying in a local hospital with grave wounds from a car bomb explosion in front of her house last month. Frustrated by the limited medical care and surrounded by seemingly senseless violence, she already feels abandoned and ignored by her government and doesn't think these elections will make any difference. "I didn't vote before...
...DANGER OF RADICAL ISLAM TIME: How serious is the threat? LEE: This battle is going to be won and lost in the Middle East. The problem in Iraq is very grave. If the jihadists win there, I'm in trouble here. [Their attitude will be]: We've beaten the Russians in Afghanistan, we've beaten the Americans and the coalition in Iraq. There's nothing we cannot do. We can fix Southeast Asia too. There will be such a surge of confidence for all jihadists. The U.S. must be seen?if not to have prevailed or to have created...
...paint-by-numbers if you’re a VES major). That’s it! People act as if the overbearing albatross of having to study for exams ruins their breaks. The reality is that anyone who even contemplates studying over winter vacation has already made a grave mistake…the fact of the matter is that there’s simply no need to.People seem to have forgotten the magic that is Reading Period. Starting and ending approximately whenever you feel like it, this is your chance to study for exactly as much or as little...