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Administrators and faculty have entertained rumors that O’Brien’s leave was truly a lay off for over three weeks. When approached, many said that they did not know enough to comment on the situation...
...lay in his Bombay hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, Tejas Pathak looked up and beheld India's turbaned Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who had tears in his eyes as he saw what the explosives had done to human flesh all around the room. "Get well soon," Singh told him. "God bless you." The 29-year-old stockbroker, badly wounded in the head and face, reportedly responded by congratulating Singh on his economic reforms...
...Guards, to both Hizballah and the military wing of Hamas, which is based in Damascus and funded in part by Iran: Let's rile up the Israelis and start a crisis. Let's change the subject from the Iranian nuclear negotiations. At the very least, let's lay down an opening marker in the negotiations: If you mess with Iran, we have a multitude of ways to mess with you. Just a theory, of course. "We really don't have any real idea about what goes on inside that government," a senior U.S. diplomat told me recently...
...very reason Pancho Villa cherished it as a hideaway in the early 1900s, the West Texas town of Lajitas, a stretch of 25,000 desolate acres on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Mexican border, hardly seems the ideal spot for an idyll. But lay down a strip of asphalt long enough for a Lear to land, then build a rich dude's dude ranch loaded with Old West ambiance--and, voilà, Lajitas, the Ultimate Hideout, is born. The resort stands as a paean to cowboy culture, attracting wealthy city slickers and adventure seekers...
Ekperi was playing basketball at the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. with three other friends. After taking a shot and landing on her feet, she sat down on the ground, and then proceeded to lay prone on the floor. The three friends, including Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, thought that Ekperi was playing a joke and was pretending to be hurt. The two other friends were not Harvard students...