Word: roberts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attention to the news today, there are so many stories that have an economic or business or finance angle to them, whether it is health care reform or bailouts or the stimulus package,” Nieman Foundation Curator Robert H. Giles said. “There are important economic elements to each of these stories...
...early goal came, but it was Maryland that grabbed the opener. On the Terrapins’ first attack of the match, Taylor Kemp squeezed past Mitchell and junior defender Robert Millock. Kemp found teammate Casey Townsend, who was sitting unmarked by the penalty spot after striker Jason Herrick made a run to the near post that drew the attention of the Crimson defenders. Townsend shot with his left foot, but the ball ricocheted off his right foot before getting caught in the wind and looping over sophomore keeper Austin Harms...
...books that cannot be replicated in equally massive, but electronic, collections. But we already possess large stores of physical texts that will not be abolished by library reforms; the “profound stimulus to the imagination” of walking through the Widener stacks described by English Professor Robert Scanlan will not be a victim of reforms. However, the concerns of students whose work relies on having physical copies should be taken very seriously so as not to hamper important niche fields of study...
...ordinary times, the people of Zimbabwe would celebrate when the heavens opened up with rain that would soak their fields and ensure their harvest. But there have been no ordinary times in Zimbabwe for years under the authoritarian rule of Robert Mugabe. For residents of Chitungwiza, a bedroom suburb 30 miles southeast of the capital Harare, the rains have renewed fears of cholera. This is where last year's outbreak of the disease started. Eventually, it would claim close to 5,000 lives in the country of 12 million. Borne on infested, waste-filled water, the intestinal ailment may ride...
...water shortages are still common, forcing residents to resort to unprotected sources such as wells and creeks. Meanwhile, the bankrupt local government has left garbage uncollected and has allowed maintenance to falter, so that sewer pipes frequently burst, further tainting the available water. (See pictures of the reign of Robert Mugabe...