Word: quarter
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...least one person was reported killed, and more than 150 injured in clashes between soldiers and the protesters known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, as tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and some live rounds were fired on a major avenue in the old quarter of Bangkok. Hostilities erupted around midday after about 300 Red Shirts attempted to breach the walls and lines of troops surrounding the First Regiment army base. The base is located on an avenue adjacent to the Phan Fa Bridge, one of two major intersections the protesters have seized in the capital...
...nightfall, the fighting had intensified, with gunfire heard repeatedly in the old quarter. About 20 soldiers were wounded when protesters hurled bombs at them at an intersection known as Kok Wua, not far from the Democracy Monument. Several television reports said protesters used guns seized from troops to fire at soldiers. Government House, where the Prime Minister normally works, was struck with two M-79 grenades. The government had shut down the city's elevated commuter rail line after protest leaders threatened to seize it, and troops were closing off two main bridges leading to the capital to prevent more...
...while April was finishing her bachelor’s, women made up less than a quarter of the tenured faculty at 10 of Harvard’s 13 primary divisions, with exceptions coming only in the humanities, divinity, and education. That January, Harvard’s then-President Lawrence H. Summers shone an inadvertent spotlight on the issue by delivering a now-infamous speech suggesting “innate” gender differences as a possible explanation for the scant number of female scientists and mathematicians at the top of their fields. The firestorm these comments generated put pressure...
...have to work,” junior midfielder Andrew Parchman said. “We know we’re a great team—we just have to act like it. Unfortunately, it’s taken us a little longer than just the first quarter to buckle down and show what we’ve really got. But that can change...
...Obama demonstrated last month with the passage of the health care bill, he is still an amazing fourth-quarter player, who elevates his communication with the American people to world-class standards at the end of a battle, exactly when it counts most. As a snapshot at this moment, none of the potential Republican candidates have displayed anything close to his skills...