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...dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when the rainy season turns the roads leading here from Khartoum into quagmires...
...Friday's ruling made clear that it was lawmakers - not Wilson - who had made the most serious errors. "We must acknowledge that Wilson's crime does not rise to the level of culpability of adults who prey on children and that, for the law to punish Wilson as it would an adult, with the extraordinarily harsh punishment of ten years in prison without the possibility of probation or parole, appears to be grossly disproportionate to his crime," wrote Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears...
Natalie C. Jacoby ’10, a board member of the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll, said she was particularly impressed by Show Me Action’s rise to fame...
...showdown has elements of a perfect storm. The decline of U.S. fortunes in Iraq has been accompanied by a rise in Iranian assertiveness, which has intensified with Ahmadinejad's recent tough talk. Trumpeting Iran's nuclear ambitions as a nationalist cause, Ahmadinejad rejected the agreement by his moderate predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, to voluntarily suspend uranium-enrichment during three years of negotiations with European powers. Ahmadinejad abandoned Khatami's "dialogue of civilizations" for more confrontational rhetoric, calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and goading the West by denying the Holocaust. Iran enthusiastically backed Hizballah and Hamas in their...
...melodic language of nostalgia and loss. For others, it’s the synchrony of two bodies in motion. And for some, it’s a symbol of passion and possession deeply interwoven in structures of social authority. At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the curtain will rise on “Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” a weekend conference in Radcliffe Yard that will interrogate these riddling definitions through a unique combination of theory and praxis.“We have music and we have dance,” says...