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...surge in attacks comes fourteen years after the fall of Somalia's last effective central government. Much of the country is split between warlords, clan elders and Saudi-sponsored Islamic clerics. Peace talks in neighboring Kenya led, last year, to the election of a "transitional federal government." But that body is already split by a rivalry between the President and Prime Minister, on the one hand, who are holed up in the small town of Jowhar, and several warlords, some of whom are also cabinet ministers, based in Mogadishu. With no way of controlling his own ministers, let alone...
Daigneau started the season opener against Dartmouth, and the two split the second weekend of the season: Tobe was in net for a 5-2 loss to Quinnipiac last Friday, though two of the four goals he allowed were power-play tallies, and Daigneau backstopped a 2-1 win over Princeton the next night...
Import such tendencies into the 21st century workplace, and you get women who are plenty able to compete ferociously but are inclined to do it in teams and to split the difference if they don't get everything they want. And mothers who appear to be unwilling to strive and quit the workplace altogether to go raise their kids? Hrdy believes they're competing for the most enduring stakes of all, putting aside their near-term goals to ensure the long-term success of their line. Robin Parker, 46, a campaign organizer who in 1980 was already on the presidential...
...substance and succeeds to a certain degree; with its sense of humor and light social commentary, it certainly avoids the vapidity of fast food. Nicolas Cage plays Dave Spritz, an overpaid, oversexed, and unloved Chicago weatherman coming apart at the seams. He’s recently split with his wife, Noreen (Hope Davis), his kids are troubled, and people keep throwing food at him. When his father (Michael Caine) is diagnosed with cancer, Spritz takes it as a sign he has to get his life in order; he starts with winning back his estranged family in an effort...
...lightweight eight event. The Crimson junior varsity eight took 14th in a time of 14:21.24. The Radcliffe heavyweights placed 20th in the women’s eight event with a time of 16:26.30.Princeton took home first-place honors on its home course, rowing to a 14:53.42 split and besting second-place Virginia by almost 30 seconds. The Black and White lightweight varsity raced in the same event and placed 30th with a time of 16:51.29, while rival Princeton finished 11th in the open weight event...