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...didn't know anything about this show," said David Werlin, president of Northeast Productions, Inc. Werlin said he found out about the concert from a WHRB answering machine message telling students where to buy tickets for the performance...
Davidson made the remarks at a Gutman Library workshop held for the Principals' Center of the Ed School. The center provides professional services for about 600 public school educators and administrators from throughout the Northeast...
Take the case of Penn (7-0), first place in the Ivies and the Northeast's only undefeated Division 1-AA team. While the selectors for the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophies--which honor the best teams in the Northeast--think Penn deserves a top ranking, the national Divison 1-AA Top 20 poll has completely ignored the Quakers...
...discuss military strategy and the internal politicking with Massoud, the leader of Jamiat-i-Islami, Burhanuddin Rabbani, 53, in September made his first trip to Afghanistan's northeast since the war began. Accompanied by an escort equipped with Stinger missiles, the former Kabul University theology professor met with Jamiat commanders in Panjshir's bomb-scarred villages. Rabbani told TIME that he thought it unlikely that elections could be held soon after Kabul falls. "It is important to establish a government on the basis of the vote of the common people of Afghanistan," he said in a bow to principle...
According to a number of Soviet POWs held in northeast Afghanistan, who spoke to TIME, conversions to Islam have seldom, if ever, been made at gunpoint. Nor do they seem to owe much to the spiritual appeal of the Muslim faith. In most cases, isolation, fear and the promise of being socially accepted by their captors have drawn the prisoners to Islam. Beg, Nazaro and other Soviet captives say they are free to make occasional accompanied visits to local bazaars and encouraged to join in volleyball games with off-duty guerrillas. "I became a Muslim once I learned the language...