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...days later, five rebels were dead and one wounded, Reinado was still on the run, and East Timor's streets had become battlegrounds as thousands of the rebel leader's supporters staged angry protests, threw rocks and torched houses. Dili, the capital, was relatively quiet as Time went to press, but unrest triggered by the failed raid could resume with redoubled violence if Reinado is caught. Meanwhile, he continues to taunt the government, and has threatened to derail the April 9 elections-the country's first Presidential poll since independence...
...pelting the remaining handful of lonely moderates waiting for Mr. Right with dated girl-power platitudes and free condoms. An opposing, liberal conception views Harvard as the most fertile breeding ground of white-collar sexism, where boys will be boys and women will be quiet, or otherwise risk immediate backlash from the men who make up an overbearing majority of student government and faculty positions...
Harvard’s bats were not as quiet as the score implies. The Crimson’s greatest threat came in the fifth inning when it loaded the bases, but the Spartans got out of the jam without giving up any runs...
Nearly 10 years have passed since Princess Diana died, and the Windsors are still haunted by her. The royals expected an inquest into her death but thought it would be a quiet affair, presided over by a single judge. On Friday, however, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrod's, won an unprecedented legal battle to have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy...
...always had a thing for, has separated from her husband and is helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education...