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...important events of the year. Last making a title game appearance in the 2004 Northern Championships, Harvard will look to win its first title under Farrar. “Harvard’s my team,” Farrar said. “I want them to go and knock teams around and win games...
...rental earnings above his university salary. But he has mixed feelings about the overall impact of the boom on Darfur. "The per capita income has increased because many people are finding work with the [aid organizations] and the African Union or the United Nations, and then there is a knock-on effect of more purchases in the market," he says, sitting on the mud-brick wall around the land where his new house will rise. "But in the field of peace nothing has improved...
Imagine getting a knock on the door in the middle of the night. You have 10 minutes to leave, says the sheriff's deputy, and you don't doubt him. The air is suddenly so turbid that your daughter, who has asthma, is throwing up in the hall bathroom. Ash is gathering like snow on the front steps. You close the door and consider the question that is becoming an existential ritual for hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year: What do I take...
...They sell a lot of knock-offs here too, though. Is the Chinese government really doing what they say they are to clamp down on that...
...could say that they acted pretty swiftly when knock-offs of Beijing Olympics 2008 merchandise appeared and then disappeared from the streets. The problem is here, [the counterfeit business]is a big industry and it is criminal organizations that are doing this, in factories where they make children work. It's done by the same people who are selling drugs all over the world, and it has to be fought all over the world. The products you see in Italy are sold by these guys who are paid by the Italian mafia...