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...reshuffling follows a series of over a half-dozen consolidation plans proposed since last May, all of which were voted down by the school committee after massive parental protest...
...available on some U.S. satellite and cable systems; Al Arabia; Abu Dhabi TV; and more. (You probably watch them too--American TV uses rebroadcast deals to pick up selected footage.) Arabs and Muslims distrustful of Western media--like Turkish students and professors who burned a TV last week to protest CNN's "one-sided" coverage--are happy to have their own alternatives. "We saw [Gulf War I] through the eyes of Peter Arnett," says Nabil El-Sharif, editor in chief of Jordan's Ad-Dustour newspaper, referring to a war correspondent for CNN in 1991. "Now we're seeing...
Abbas, 30, a carpenter and father of two, says his whole family was mowed down at once. His story: fedayeen in civilian clothes rolled an antiaircraft gun into his backyard. Abbas, having seen his neighbor protest and get a bullet in the head in front of his children, didn't say a word. "They started firing at American helicopters," he says. "The Americans started returning fire ... We had to leave...
...regatta’s outcome and eventual winner were decided in a protest that Tufts won over Harvard, that bumped Tufts up to first, with a final record of 12-3, and dropped the Crimson into a tie for second with Yale at 10-5. Had Harvard won the protest, the Crimson and Tufts would have been locked at 11-4, and Harvard would have won the tiebreaker after beating Tufts in head-to-head racing...
...chief commander of the powerful Hizbul Mujahideen militant group. Supporters of Hizbul, which is waging a violent campaign against Indian rule, said Saif-ul-Islam was tortured and shot after being taken into custody; police said he died during a gun battle. Thousands of Kashmiris joined a strike in protest at the killing, as lawyers in the region called for an investigation. Clash of Faiths Philippines Three Muslim mosques in the city of Davao on the southern island of Mindanao were attacked soon after a bomb at a ferry terminal killed 16 people and injured more than 50. The blast...