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...When Aliyev married Dariga Nazarbayeva in 1984, it was seen as a love affair within Kazakhstan's political elite (Aliyev's father was the former Health Minister). Aliyev slowly rose in the government until the fall of 2001, when his alleged collusion with top officials against Nazarbayev lead to a political crisis. Some Kazakh political sources say that only Dariga's intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister...
When the sun rose the next day, word came down that the climbers had made surprisingly good progress during the night. While some had turned back early, at least 20 were pressing on toward the summit. Breashears grabbed a telescope from his equipment tent, trained it on the peak and saw that the report was true. In his eyepiece was a flyspeck line of climbers inching up the last 1,000 ft. of Everest's five-mile rock pile...
...cameras at a display case that showed the evolution of Darth Vader's costume - for this crowd, the nasty Sith lord's chest plate changing from green buttons to blue ones in between Episodes IV and V is as significant as Picasso changing from his blue period to his rose period. Those in touch with their dark sides rushed exhibits of tortured druids on a rack, Luke Skywalker's severed head and the Princess Leia slave costume, a fetching metal bikini that says, "Eat your heart out, Jabba the Hutt...
Whether NCLB is achieving its objectives remains an open question. Fourth-grade reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) rose sharply from 1999 to 2004, but most of the gains occurred before the law took effect. The achievement gap appears to be narrowing in some spots--fourth- and eighth-grade math scores for minorities, for instance--but not others. The gap between white and black eighth-graders has widened slightly in math, for example. Gains for eighth-graders in general remain stubbornly elusive...
...match. “The heat was on and it was really hot outside,” Ko said. “She fought really hard, especially in the third set.” Uvarova fell in the tournament’s second round to No. 13 Georgia Rose of Northwestern. Ko likely would have played Rose in March, but the match between the Crimson and the Wildcats was cancelled when bad weather led to airport delays in Chicago. The loss marks the end of the season for the Harvard squad. —Staff writer Tyler D. Sipprelle...