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...TUNISIA Nineteen people visiting the site of North Africa's oldest synagogue died April 11 when a natural-gas truck exploded. Witnesses reported seeing the driver get out before the blast, and investigators have since found numerous potential ties to al-Qaeda, including a suspect's phone call to Germany an hour before the attack...
...Pennsylvania. When Republicans were drawing districts there, they committed another constitutional no-no. In April, a federal court struck down the redistricting plan because, in their efforts to tilt the scales toward Republicans, the legislators had created districts with different size populations. Some districts varied in size by nineteen people. Now, that may sound silly when districts have more than 600,000 people. But the principle of keeping districts as close as possible to each other in population is one of the most important in the Constitution. It goes back to equal representation. If 600,000 people are served...
Four years later, having earned his bachelor’s degree, he became a teacher at the university. He was nineteen at the time; most of his students were older than he was. He remained a member of the faculty at Jingdezhen until 1994 when he transferred to the arts and crafts department of the Beijing Fashion Academy for a year. Since then he has served as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing...
Haigh barely had time to celebrate before St. Lawrence responded. Nineteen seconds after Harvard’s goal, a defensive lapse led to Saints freshman forward Rebecca Russell with the puck in front of the net with Kingsbury, and nary a defender in sight. Russell dished to Kingsbury for the goal, making it 2-1 Harvard after...
Mueller, too, damningly equates—or conflates—art and food. He glosses his own work: “19 fluff bunnies. Nineteen cast plaster rabbits covered with Marshmallow Fluff™. Cast-cover-drip-display-shine-sniff-distaste-desire-ad nauseum.” And true to this description, he offers a bevy of 19 frighteningly exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures?...