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...Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear. At $39.99, it has set the sales record for collectible action figures on KB's website. There's also brisk traffic on the Web for donations in memory of Sally Baron, 71, of northern Wisconsin, and Gertrude M. Jones, 81, of Mandeville, La. Obituaries for both women contained requests that money be sent to any organization working for the removal of Bush from office. And in Jefferson County, Colo., West Jefferson Middle School teacher Martha Swisher sparked a furor by wearing...
...said they wanted to discuss a business deal in Basra. But they soon pulled out pistols, hustled al-Falahi into a waiting black BMW and drove off. Two days later, police recovered the body of al-Falahi, with a single bullet through his forehead, from a roadside gutter in northern Baghdad...
...challenge to the world's terrorist hunters. Turkish analysts say that several of the 21 suspected militants charged so far in the bombings trained in al-Qaeda camps before 2001 and perhaps with Ansar al-Islam, the al-Qaeda-linked group that was based in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion. Mehmet Farac, an expert on Turkey's Muslim militants, says the group may have linked up with al-Qaeda planners over the past year to help it regain ground lost since its leader, Huseyin Velioglu, was killed in a police shoot-out in 2000. "Mutual interest...
...Says No U.K. Unionist voters in Northern Ireland threw up a new obstacle to the peace process by handing power to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party (D.U.P.), which is out to topple the 1998 Good Friday agreement. The fiery preacher's party became the province's largest, ousting former First Minister David Trimble's moderate Ulster Unionists. The D.U.P. won by promising it would not share power with the first choice of nationalists, Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein, which picked up 24 of 108 Assembly seats. During victory celebrations, Paisley threatened to expel any D.U.P. member who so much...
Those struggles against non-conference opponents—Harvard lost to BU three times last year, lost to Maine, managed a tie with BC and lost to Northern Michigan—have been a thorn in the team’s side for years. Last season, when Harvard made the NCAA Tournament without the ECAC auto-bid, it was despite the team’s abysmal showing against anyone outside the ECAC...