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Drugs are one of the main sources of conflict in Columbia, said David Aquila Lawrence, a free-lance journalist for National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC and CNN for the past three years...
This is not Nouri's first scuffle with hard-liners: in an impeachment trial last year, parliament ousted him as Minister of the Interior for permitting student demonstrations. Since then, his main vehicle of dissent has been the national daily Khordad. The newspaper has published defiant antiregime opinions by prominent clerics, notably Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has been under house arrest since 1997 for questioning velayat-e-faqih, the absolute authority of the clergy. In an explosive article, a young cleric, Mohsen Kadivar, even criticized the royalist tendencies of the clerics and their treatment of Supreme Leader Ayatullah...
Rimmed by steep ridges and mountain shanties, the hamlet of Keystone, W. Va. (pop. 627), looks like a movie set left over from Coal Miner's Daughter. Main Street, all four blocks of it, has not a single traffic light. Yet the local bank in recent years has boasted one of the highest profit margins in the U.S., and reached $1 billion in assets in 1998. You might wonder how such a bank could thrive in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. And you'd be in good company, because bank examiners and the FBI wondered...
...winner of the Eastern Championships, hosted by the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. will advance to the NCAA Championships, the main event of intercollegiate water polo...
...seniors who are now going through recruiting say the main purpose of these sessions is not necessarily information. Most go to schmooze, already knowing which companies will be getting their applications...