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...match was stopped and Ogunwole’s triumphant final campaign came to a sudden halt. Now the heavyweight and his team await the results...
...American people, who want him to bring the troops home. He has decided to do just the opposite, with a "surge" in troops, which is just spin for escalation. We tried that in the Vietnam War, which ended only when the American people finally woke up and demanded a halt. We must do the same now with this Iraq fiasco because it is very clear that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will never bring it to an end on their...
...suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track--a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It's still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms the one--but now you are more directly implicated; most people say it would be wrong to do this deal. Why? According to Greene's brain scans, the second scenario--the "up close and personal" intervention, he calls it--more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to emotion than does...
Harvard also said that its real-estate buying spree in Allston has come to a halt for the time being. After Harvard takes control of the Charlesview apartment complex, the University has “no immediate plans” to add more property to its existing 350 acres in Allston, according to the chief of the Allston Development Group, Christopher M. Gordon...
After 16 years of civil war that has reduced Mogadishu to rubble and anarchy, you might expect bookish locals to be reading anything they could get their hands on. Not quite. While education essentially came to a halt for many Somalis with the onset of civil war, in Mogadishu several private schools - and even a private university - have survived. As a result, English is fluently spoken among well-to-do Somalis, and the titles on local shelves suggest a diversity of interests. A small bookcase at a stationary store in south Mogadishu, on a junction known as Kilometer 4 that...