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...among the lucky ones. As military helicopters and aid convoys began delivering food, water, medicine and tents to those stranded in the Himalayas last week, the full scale of the disaster became more apparent. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake that hammered northern Pakistan and India on Oct. 8 flattened entire villages, burying scores of people whose bodies remain unrecovered. In Pakistan, officials expect the final toll to exceed 50,000 dead, with many thousands injured and more than 2 million people left homeless. In India, the quake killed more than 1,300 and left more than 100,000 without shelter...
...variety of different ways,” junior John Voith said. With the wins, the Harvard squad moves to 7-10 on the season and also concludes its regular season slate. Both games were important as the Crimson looks to compete at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Championships to be held at MIT. HARVARD 11, FORDHAM 7 In the nightcap, the Harvard offense took center stage, jumping out quickly to a 7-2 lead over the Rams that the Crimson would never relinquish en route to an 11-7 win. Nine different players scored for Harvard, with junior Michael...
...relatively calm for the vote. The quiet may be an indication that the draconian security measures that banned almost all vehicular traffic, international travel and movement between provinces were effective in curbing insurgents' attacks. Still, the night before the vote, insurgents sabotaged an electrical tower, plunging the city and northern towns into darkness. There were also reports of gun battles between insurgents, on one hand, and U.S. and Iraqi troops in Ramadi and other western towns Saturday, causing voters to stay away from the polling booths. In the capital, however, there were attacks by gunmen at only four polling stations...
...Scribner ($2). A lot of people expected a big novel from burly young Author Hemingway. His short work (In Ou Time, 1925) bit deeply into life. He said things naturally, calmly tersely, accurately. He wrote only; about things he had experienced mostly outdoors, as a doctor's son in northern Michigan and as a self-possessed young tramp in Europe. Philosophically his implication was: "Life's great. Don't let it rattle...
Unable to support herself and her children on a meager hairdresser’s salary, Josie begins working at Pearson Taconite, the iron mine of Northern Minnesota. The work is hard, the men are merciless—they call the female employees “cunts”—and the women are expected “to take it like...