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...There are a lot of really good bands in there,” said Jeff D. Nanney ’10, a Crimson Editorial editor. Nanney and Peter G. Salas ’10, Andrew O. Okuyiga ’10, and Michael Y. Mi ’10 came out to compete as the team “Candlepin Slampiece”. They maintained that despite their estimated 12 hours a week of practice this year, they were still far from...
Palin will travel mostly by bus, with her now famous family expected to be along for some of the ride. She will start off the tour with TV interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters, followed by sit-downs on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren, a three-pronged conservative kick that will keep the cash registers whirring. Some close to Palin believe she quit the governor's job to trade the crushing legal bills stemming from the various ethics complaints filed against her for the cash that comes with speaking engagements and book...
...government's stance seems set. On Nov. 8, Spain's ambassador to Kenya met with Omar Abrirashid Ali Sharmarke, who is Prime Minister of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. The following day, after declaring that the two pirates "have to be tried," Spanish Justice Minister Francisco Caamaño Dominguez affirmed that the administration had left open the door to a trial in Somalia if an agreement could be reached. Because Spain has no extradition treaty with Somalia, which it considers to be a failed state, the government is said to be considering turning the two men over...
Tuesday night's blackout brought chaos to some of the region's biggest cities and frightened many of its residents. It started at around 10 p.m., when lights flickered for a few moments and then died. It lasted more than two hours. Power returned to São Paulo, a metropolis of more than 20 million people, around midnight, before going off again a few moments later. Lights came back on shortly before 1:30 a.m. (See TIME's photo-essay "A Long History of Olympic Politics...
...terrified. I've never seen anything like it," says Claudia Lima, a shop assistant who was at home when the power went out. "Where I live you can be assaulted at 8 o'clock in the morning - imagine at night with no light. There is this fear not of the dark but of not knowing what is going on. Everyone I know felt the same way. We felt impotent." (See pictures of how São Paulo cleaned...