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...establishment. Having been involved in power struggles with generals throughout its history - Bhutto's father was hanged by General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq following a 1977 coup, and the military twice helped bring down her government - senior members of the party suspect that the army may have had a hand in Bhutto's murder...
...answered right back in the bottom of the frame—plating a pair of runs on a walk and back-to-back doubles—and at 10-4 the game seemed well in hand. But after Aoki opted to let reliever Matt Brazis try to finish the game, the Crimson had other ideas...
...chicken salad or grilled cheese and tomato soup, anyone?), undeniably haunt the recently opened Russell House Tavern, the newest star in The Grafton Group’s constellation of other Harvard Square watering holes, Redline, Temple Bar, and Grafton Street. The black and white tiled floor, or those Xlerator hand dryers in the bathroom downstairs? Um, hello...
Instead, I raced to hand over my cell phone and cash while my roommate stood five feet away, doing nothing. It must’ve been the easiest 20,000 pesos that man had ever made. I’m not really sure how long this whole transaction took, but it was somewhere in the range of 60 seconds, and then it was done. I was mugged. I was stranded a hundred blocks from my apartment in a foreign city with nary a centavo. Would I have to become a drug mule and smuggle ten pounds of cocaine...
...passing through Senjaray on the Ring Road slowed on the curve in front of Dog Company's outpost. A passenger bus came up behind the convoy, traveling at a rate of speed the Americans deemed suspicious. The convoy tried to signal the bus to stop; the soldiers apparently used hand signals and pen flares, but fired no warning shots according to the McChrystal protocol. But the bus didn't stop and the Americans opened fire; five civilians were killed and 18 wounded. Outraged Afghans poured into the streets in Kandahar to protest. Their support for the upcoming battle was becoming...