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Harvard won at No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, while Cornell was victorious in the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth positions. It was the No. 7 matchup between Crimson sophomore Alastair Smith and Cornell captain Omar Mangalji that decided the match...
...Gibbons' sentence also did not satisfy some clerics. Sheikh Abdul-Jalil al-Karuri, imam of Ash-Shahid mosque and an adviser to President Omar al-Bashir, said he was not surprised that people had decided to demonstrate over what he deemed a lenient sentence. "I was expecting more because this is a serious case and the court just gave her 15 days. She has done five already so she can leave any time soon," he said...
...book is the Taliban as it ascends and eventually falls at the hands of US troops.Her story of the early Taliban paints a nuanced picture of an organization founded to combat lawlessness and disorder in a country being torn apart by the US-backed mujahideen. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the founder of the Taliban and ultimately the man who imposed the harsh religious law for which the Taliban became infamous, had fought against the Soviet Union in the 1980s with forces President Ronald Reagan lauded as “freedom fighters.” Gannon describes him as a man with...
...advertising career in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, where he worked at various ad agencies as an illustrator until he was 36. "If you're trained in advertising you can't have a blurry composition because you have to get the message across with a minimum of effort," says Hamdan Omar, an art-school chum of Zakii's who worked alongside him in the Kuala Lumpur ad world. As a consequence, Zakii's polished paintings sometimes appear unattractive to collectors looking for more frisson - a characteristic of the Indonesian Masriadi's work, for instance. "Zakii's very good at composition," says...
...PetroChina/CNPC hope that the stock offering will be the largest in Chinese securities-exchange history. Earnings from the stock offering will fund new PetroChina/CNPC projects across the world. And one of the company’s chief growth areas is Sudan, where it has allied with the government of Omar al-Bashir, whose regime is engaged in a systematic effort to exterminate ethnic minorities...