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...Iraq and the country's deadliest terrorist. But the latest puzzler is whether he's still in the picture. After an initial report on an Islamic website asked Muslims to "pray for the recovery of our Sheik Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi from an injury he suffered for the sake of God," reports flew rapidly, many contradictory: he had been wounded by gunfire in the lungs, or shrapnel hit his stomach and legs; he was hurt in a clash with U.S. forces a month ago and spotted at a hospital in Ramadi, or he was injured a week...
When her parents divorced and she moved to Paris with her mother at 13, Peyroux says, singing on the street taught her "how to enjoy music" for its own sake. But after she had moved to New York City and brought out a CD, Dreamland (Atlantic), in 1996, she lost the joy. The mixed blessings of success, the pressure to come up with a second album, the strain that required surgery on her vocal cords were all too much. She dropped out. For five years, she spent time with her family, traveled, explored Christianity and tried...
...benefit of having undergraduate housing near the river could outweigh the cost of moving athletic facilities further inland. We feel that not only would those costs be vastly outweighed by the benefits of contiguous and proximate student housing, but also that locating undergraduate housing elsewhere for the athletic facilities sake, and at the cost of a contiguous, student-friendly set-up or, worse, a student center, would be unacceptable and would represent an unacceptable loss of potential...
Like him or hate him, President Bush has begun to show the potential for real consistency in his foreign policy. For the sake of his place in history, we can only hope that the president can keep up appearances for remainder of his term...
...understand the need to downsize Hilles. But these new proposals suggest that Quad residents will have to suffer undue consequences for the sake of the entire student body’s extracurriculars. We hope that the College and the University, in their quest to plan the Allston expansion, does not overlook the needs of a large subset of its students. The College and HCL must be sure to be mindful that all Harvard students are guaranteed equal access to the libraries they deserve...