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...despair. 'We didn't receive support from the apostate nations who call themselves our Muslim brothers. Things might have been different.' His final words to his fighters that night revealed a tired and weary warrior. 'I'm sorry for getting you involved in this battle, if you can no longer resist, you may surrender with my blessing...
...covering a breaking crisis isn't easy, especially for book publishers, as editors call for rewrites or dramatic changes in the publishing lag time. "There seems to be two approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio...
...wondered why,” Cai said. “It was because he would always smile at the people looking back.” Cai kept his warmth and sociability far beyond his childhood into his college years. “Peter is no longer here, but I still see him smiling,” Cai’s mother, Ming Ding, fondly said of her son, an Adams House resident. “I can hear his sweet voice, saying ‘Hi, Mom!’” Li, Cai’s girlfriend, stood...
...season.Harvard quickly responded five minutes later, when Fucito sprinted down the right sideline, shook off defenders, and delivered a cross to junior Andre Akpan. His header past Providence goalie Tim Murray was Akpan’s seventh of the season.Buoyed by the newly-evened score and no longer going against the wind, Harvard came out on the attack in the second half. “Once we were able to run at them and open them up a little bit, then things started to come together,” Fucito said.Harvard began its onslaught three minutes into the half...
...militants were killed and arrested. Syrian troops have also deployed along the northern border of neighboring Lebanon in what Damascus says is an attempt to block jihadists from slipping into Syria. These recent developments have raised speculation that Syria is threatened by a blowback from jihadist militants who no longer have easy access to cross the border into Iraq and instead are turning their attention to the secular regime in Damascus. "We assumed the Syrians were chucking people in jail, which they could be doing, but it could also be that the foreign fighters are backing up at the border...