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...Japan BoA Concert [April 5, 6] She is the first Korean star to rise to the No. 1 spot on the Japanese music charts. Sixteen-year-old diva BoA will perform at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Stadium in her first Japanese tour since her fourth single Listen to My Heart sold more than 100,000 copies in the country in early 2002. Call (813) 3489 9999 regarding tickets...
...Older brother Latif was an Iraqi army conscript sent to Kuwait in 1990. He, with the rest of his battalion, surrendered to U.S. forces at the first opportunity. "Our senior officer told us before the war not to fight and to surrender, and after sixteen hours of the war that's exactly what we did," he says, insisting the conscripts overlooking his town would be looking to do the same thing this time. He worries though that hardline intelligence and secret police officers have been put into the units to ensure the men stay and try to weather...
...present-day successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB). The move strengthens Putin's position in advance of forthcoming Duma and presidential elections, by tightening his control over internal security. Putin is a former officer of the KGB, which was broken up in 1991. Shaky Peace IVORY COAST Sixteen of the 41 members of the new cabinet stayed away from its first meeting, dashing hopes that the installation of the French-brokered power-sharing government would end six months of fighting between the administration of President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel groups. The main opposition group, called the Rally for Republicans...
Today, unfortunately, we are forced to acknowledge what we have been fearing: the present administration’s continued and calculated willingness to perpetuate a climate of fear in order to maneuver its agenda through a compliant Congress. Sixteen months ago, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed in the fear-laden aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It might have been hoped that this was merely the unreflective response of a shocked government in a time of crisis. Yet, in the last month, another tool used in this fight against Americans’ rights has surfaced?...
...familiar face in Radcliffe Yard, Salis has worked in the Schlesinger Library for the past sixteen years. She says she “stumbled upon” the opportunity to apply for the new curator position last September...