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...Obama cut, eating his favorite food at his favorite Chicago diner, and sitting on the bench at the park where Obama used to bring his then-girlfriend Michelle, Notchi got plenty of inspiration for his performance - and plenty of attention. Reporters from the Chicago Tribune shadowed him during the nine-day trip...
...India Temple Tragedy Early on Sept. 30, as 12,000 worshippers gathered in the city of Jodhpur for the start of a nine-day Hindu religious festival, a sudden panic caused a stampede that killed at least 200 people and injured at least 60 more. An official said a wall had collapsed near the Chamunda Devi temple and alarmed revelers; other reports blamed a bomb scare and a group trying to cut in line...
...Thousands of Islamic seminary students, joined by members of banned militant groups from across Pakistan, gathered near the site of the Red Mosque to commemorate the death of some 100 militants and students who had faced down the Pakistani security forces in a standoff that rocked Pakistan. The nine-day siege, code-named "Operation Silence," culminated in a vicious firefight in the usually tranquil capital that killed the mosque's firebrand prayer leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. At the end the mosque was still standing, but the seminary, or madrassa, had been reduced to rubble...
Most of the team has been back in Cambridge since Dec. 27 preparing for a nine-day, five-game start to the year. They were, however, without Cahow, who returned to the team Jan. 1 after a stint at the USA Hockey Women’s National Camp in Lake Placid...
...over his decision to remove Latin from their diplomas (“Latin, Si! Pusey, No!”); their successors, eight years later, occupying University Hall (“Fight! Fight!” they yelled, calling for ROTC’s ejection); last spring, nine students holding a nine-day fast to protest the working conditions of the University’s security guards. And yet, through the silly and the serious, our politics have mostly been kept out of our rooms, away from the halls of Wigglesworth and crowded doubles of the River Houses—brushed...