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...counters with Harvard's first offensive rebound of the night and putback, 37-24. 2:20: Housman is all the Crimson's got consistently on offense. He's got 9 on a beautiful up and under through traffic (again), pulling Harvard to 39-26. Timeout. 1:40: Best ball movement of the night from the Crimson, ending with a nice baseline drive and layup in traffic for Lin. 40-28. But just like that, another HC layup, and the Crimson is down 14 again, 42-28. 1:07: Housman draws the foul and nails two free throws, so silky...
...Fazlullah, a local student who once earned a living ferrying passengers and goods across the Swat river, got his start studying under Maulana Sufi Muhammad, a religious teacher who founded the Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammaidi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) in the 1990s. In 2002, TNSM was banned, and Muhammad thrown in jail for mobilizing thousands of his followers to fight American forces in Afghanistan. Fazlullah, by then his son-in-law, continued the campaign for Sharia using the platform of his popular radio show...
...used as evidence against them. "They are on the right side, advocating non-violent political change, but are they doing good?" asks Carl Thayer, a veteran Vietnam analyst who lectures at Australia's National Defence University. "Any action like that provokes repression. The key leaders of the pro-democracy movement in Vietnam have been systematically rounded up. So they just aren't getting any traction." It's not clear whether the latest arrests will help bring attention to their cause, either. So far, reaction from the U.S. embassy and other foreign missions has been muted, with officials saying they...
...greatly broadened the front opposing government reform initiated Nov. 14 by transport and utility workers, whose ongoing strikes against the tightening of their pension schemes have caused most rail travel throughout France to be canceled, and have brought suburban train, subway, and bus service to a crawl. Tuesday's movement even found echo in the private sector, where Air France employees resumed strikes begun in late October to demand better pay. That mass action was set to be followed Wednesday with protests by students angered over university reforms, and next week by justice workers who oppose government reorganization plans that...
...never discussed in polite company.” “Speak Out: I Had an Abortion” aims to change that.This cute little project is a bit reminiscent of angst-ridden teenagers who want nothing more than to enact societal change and to be part of a movement. Sadly, “Speak Out” has arrived on the scene a bit late. The statistics on abortion rates, which the filmmakers themselves agree upon, would suggest that this supposed “stigma” is not holding women back from having abortions. Talking personally about one?...