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...opposition figure with intimate experience of these pressures is activist Ahmed Néjib Chebbi, founder of the Progressive Democratic Party, Tunisia's most outspoken opposition party, which has no seats in parliament. When TIME interviewed him in Tunis, Chebbi, 64, was about to begin a hunger strike to protest an eviction order from his party headquarters, which he said was one of the few gathering places for activists. Although the party is legal, its members say it is shut out of parliament by being starved of exposure. "In 15 years as head of the party I've had eight...
...both her extemporaneous stand-up routines and her more scripted pieces—the most consistently humorous of which are her songs. “Jesus is Magic” is not the film for those expecting a cohesive plot, or any plot at all. The movie stumbles from jib to jab without any rationale, and although her politically incorrect caricatures are often entertaining, they are undercut by Silverman’s tendency to slide into sophomoric humor. One such example is the final scene, in which she “performs” a song using multiple orifices...
...even greater deficit to overcome. They opened the regatta on a particularly ominous note, breaking down in the first race and receiving last place points plus one for a disputed OCS (On Course Side) infraction in the second“The first race we were actually winning, and our jib halyard just snapped, and our jib fell down, so we had to drop out of the race, and we got a breakdown for that race,” Porter said. “And then the next race we went out and we had a bad start. It couldn?...
...luck was partly responsible for the women’s sixth-place finish. Among the incidents that plagued the women sailors was a broken jib lead, a mistimed start and a capsized boat after being fouled...
...first race, Harvard’s ‘A’ boat, featuring senior skipper Liam Mahoney and clasmate Zoe Epstein, encountered trouble in the first race when the jib halyard wire snapped, preventing completion of the race...