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...tsunamis that roared across the Indian Ocean passed 70,000 overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...
...workers to flee. To date, most of the violence, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left more than 2 million homeless, has been carried out by members of the Janjaweed, an Arab militia that has received financial and military support from the Sudanese government to quell an insurgency by the region's non-Arab Muslims...
...proposal was triggered by the violent rioting in Kenmore Square after the Red Sox win in the final game of American League Championship Series last month, Murphy said. An Emerson College student, Victoria Snelgrove, was killed by police as they attempted to quell a riot with pepper spray. At a recent meeting convened by city politicians and police to investigate the causes of Snelgrove’s death, police said that one of the major crowd-control problems that night was the number of inebriated students who spilled out of keg parties from off-campus houses. This tracking law would...
...supporters of the resolution were quick to quell suggestions that the bill played on local anti-Harvard sentiment...
...talented Eagles squad managed to quell Harvard’s late second-half offensive surge, stopping the Crimson attack after two late penalty corners. BC’s own chances fell wide of the goal, and the momentum shifts that governed most of the game led to a tie score at the end of regulation...