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...window, you can, in fact, fly. In that case, my impulse was just - I wonder if I could hit my artery? A few seconds later, I realized indeed I could hit my artery, and was about to die. You know, if I had wanted to die, I would have lain down and died. But I had no interest in dying. What I wanted to see was if I could hit my artery. So, of course, I was trying to get to the phone, trying to call 911. And thank God, they got there in time. I'm very grateful...
...student population is very diverse, but the faculty and administrative population does not reflect the makeup of the student body,” Gates said. Wednesday’s reception marked a revival for the three-decade-old Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows, which had largely lain inactive over the past five years, according to Matory and Gates, the association’s co-chairs. “[Faust’s] announcement breathed new life into Harvard and also into the association,” Gates said. During her speech, Faust spoke of an obligation to change...
...billion and take five years to repair and modernize the industry, whose infrastructure had been rotting for decades because of international sanctions and Saddam's mismanagement. Insurgents have been attacking oil pipelines since 2003. A key northern line that leads to the export terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey, has lain idle for months since it was blown up. The industry also faces skills shortages. Years of suicide attacks and kidnappings have drained the country of its oil engineers, who have fled...
...economic devastation if Iraq divided into a federation or imploded into disparate ethnic states, since the territory dominated by their ethnic group was thought to be the only one without large reserves of oil. (Both the Shi'ite south and Kurdish north have productive fields.) "The Western desert has lain dormant," says Colin Lothian, senior analyst on Middle East energy for Wood Mackenzie, an international energy research and consultancy. "It's not out of the realm of possibility...
...unofficial cease-fire over between the U.S. and the forces of Shi'ite warlord Moqtada al-Sadr? For the past couple of months, al-Sadr had set aside his bellicose rhetoric and lain low. So low, in fact that the speculation was that he was in Iran. Meanwhile, even as Sunni suicide bombers unleashed carnage in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad in recent weeks, Sadr's forces have kept themselves largely in check, curbing death squad activities that had caused so much carnage. But, in a message sent to an anti-American demonstration today in Najaf, Sadr urged Iraqi security...