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High Tea in Mosul follows two Englishwomen, longtime friends Pauline (a pseudonym) and Margaret (her real name), who married Iraqi students they met in England and moved in the 1970s to the ancient northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2003 they met the author - an Australian then covering the war for the Irish Times - shortly after coalition troops freed the city. O'Donnell's book is a brief, devastating account of how these women's lives change over three increasingly grim decades in their adopted country...
...deal in the second-floor suite to get a hello out of him. A suite mate, Karan Grewal, a senior from Northern Virginia, told TIME that "we just thought he was shy." Grewal said there was no sign of medication in Cho's room, no books, no posters on his walls. While Grewal acknowledged that it would have been possible for Cho to hide guns in the suite, he said Cho never talked about weapons or killing. He simply didn't talk...
...Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va., according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y. Read was born in South Korea into an Air Force family and lived in Texas and California before settling in the northern Virginia suburb of Annandale. She considered a handful of colleges, including nearby George Mason University, before choosing Virginia Tech. It was a popular destination among her Annandale High School classmates, according to Kuppinger...
...that it picked up Saturday in New York against Queens and Utica to boost its morale. That’s not all the wins were good for, though. In winning its last two games, the Crimson secured a No. 3 seed for itself in next weekend’s Northern Division Championship that will be played in New London, Conn. “We can get them close, but the kids have to take it the last mile,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “Everything we have done this year has been preparing...
...Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he said last night. There, Dau explained, he became...