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...setback last week when police and religious hard-liners closed the offices of the country's largest student group. The organization, the Office for Fostering Unity, strongly supported moves by President Mohammed Khatami to ease some of Iran's strict social laws. The police moved in, they claimed, to quell disputes between rival groups of students after right-wingers in the southern city of Shiraz claimed to have won control of the organization's council...
Once again forced to quell rumors of his possible departure, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy told The Crimson yesterday he has no interest in assuming the vacant head coaching position at the University of Delaware...
ASPIRIN ALERT Most folks who routinely take low-dose aspirin to prevent a second heart attack think nothing of downing additional anti-inflammatories to quell their arthritis pain. Not a good idea. Scientists have discovered that ibuprofen, sold under the brand names Advil and Motrin, may interfere with aspirin's ability to protect the heart. What's left? Tylenol (in low doses) and prescription anti-inflammatories Voltaren and Vioxx don't mess with aspirin...
...think it would be easy to put a frail, 65-year-old quadriplegic under house arrest. But it's never been harder to quell the activists of Hamas. When armed police from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel...
...with the little genkan and the slippers neatly lined up on the veneered floor. And what kind of dream is that? Even the head teacher of the junior high can't hide the fact the students are wild: "There are always instances of bullying. We try our best to quell them on school grounds, but once class is out, there's nothing we can do." Ah nods her head, stands up from the bench and says she thinks Kayoko has had a great idea. Ah's mom died when she was in third grade, and her older sister ran away...