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...ARRESTED. JAYENDRA SARASWATHI, 70, one of Hindu India's highest religious leaders; on charges of abetting, conspiracy and suppressing evidence in the contract killing of temple official Sankararaman in September; in Mahbubnager, India. Saraswathi is the leader of a Hindu monastery in the pilgrim town of Kanchipuram and a mediator in the Hindu-Muslim dispute over northern India's holy site of Ayodhya. His lawyer calls the charges baseless...
...Those nations at either extreme—North Korean on the totalitarian side and the United States on the democratic side—had very few instances of terrorism, whereas those nations in the middle, nations that were neither totally free nor totally state-run, had the highest rates of occurrence. It should come as little surprise that the Middle East falls into the middle category of nations where terrorist activity is to be most expected...
Walker didn’t look too shabby for an inexperienced freshman, completing 18 of 30 passes for 178 yards, a touchdown and an interception. He was quick on his feet and didn’t seem intimidated by his collegiate debut in the highest-pressure environment the Ivy League has to offer...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has declined to comment on Harvard’s investment in PetroChina. The Corporation Committe on Shareholder Responsibility—comprised of three members of the University’s highest governing body and advised by a council of students, faculty and alumni—is charged with setting Harvard’s policy on investments...
...proves his points. Like other young African-American politicians, from Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee to Artur Davis of Alabama, Obama doesn't sound like a civil-rights-era black politician. His style is, as he puts it, "not accusing but challenging Americans to live up to the highest ideals." Some call that pandering to whites. But it can appeal to blacks too. "When he talks, you don't think about his color," says Eric Robinson, an African-American barber from Decatur, Ill., at an Obama rally in October...