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...first communal call it seems a wise one. Ebbsfleet sit ninth in the Blue Square Premier league and remain in the hunt for a play-off berth for promotion to the professional English Football League. And for a place that never really existed on the map, Ebbsfleet has arrived. The club was known as Gravesend and Northfleet until May when it was renamed to match the new Eurostar station nearby which opens next week. This is handier than you might think: with MyFC members based in over 75 different countries, Eurostar is also the club sponsor. Air links are pretty...
...dastan - so perfect by the flickering light of a fire and before a richly colored canvas - began to seem affected, if not a little odd, set down in stark, black-and-white text. Amir Hamza needed to breathe the air of a premodern era - "when rational people could still sit and listen to a storyteller," as Memon puts it, "and believe in djinn and spirits...
...That was the day hundreds of villagers, saying they were fed up with government corruption, stormed city hall, tossed out the top bureaucrats and occupied the building. Their strange protest continues today. Three dozen old women in smocks and sandals sit at the entrance, guarding against the removal of boxes of documents that they believe will prove the officials' guilt. A cauldron of congee cooks on an open fire in the driveway. One retiree, 73-year-old Li Biao, marches around the building in a T shirt with the phrase "Villager's Complaint" stenciled over the face of Bruce...
...People have money, but they do not know how to behave. We want to acquaint them with the cost of a plane, the safety aspects, how to treat the hostesses." Still, for many passengers, the experience is mainly about letting dreams take wing. The weathered Airbus is "beautiful to sit in," says local resident Anisha Khan, who recently took a few hours out from caring for her three children to take a ride. "When we have more money, then we'll go on a real plane...
...catalyst for the documentary. Many factors contributed to the film’s lineup. According to Reitan, Monroe led Karslake to Gomes, who in turn got Bishop Robinson involved. “That was the main impetus of the movie,” Reitan said in a sit-down interview with the Crimson. “He wanted Bishop Robinson’s story to be told. I think from there it sort of grew, people would recommend people.” Reitan’s mother first got him involved with the activism portrayed in the film...