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...black African farmers in Sudan exploded in an incident where African rebels from the so-called Sudanese Liberation Army attacked an airport, killing 75 government soldiers and damaging military property in the process. In retaliation, the Sudanese government in the capitol of Khartoum recruited Arab nomads as militiamen to squash the revolt. Since August of 2003, however, these Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed or “devils on horseback,” have used the weapons and support afforded to them to conduct genocidal ethnic cleansing and land grabs at the expense of Sudan’s black...
...worming along the inside of the leg where the tubing was stripped out to jury-rig the heart's new plumbing. (Over the years I have had two multiple-bypass operations, done in the same hospital where yours was performed. My last operation was 11 years ago. I played squash last night for an hour...
...notice.) In keeping with the themes of nature that are threaded all through the display areas, it's a building landscaped with 150 species of trees and shrubs in a design guided by Donna House, a Navajo ethnobotanist. There's also a lily pond, plantings of corn, beans, squash and tobacco, and massive Canadian boulders. This being Washington, the rocks double as security barriers...
After a nail-biter of a 5-4 loss to Princeton handed the Harvard women’s squash team its first Ivy League loss in three years, the Crimson still had a chance to claim a share of its fourth-straight league title with a win over Yale. But the young, feisty Bulldog squad dismantled Harvard 7-2 and the Ivy crown slipped out of reach for the first time in any of the current players’ Crimson careers...
...Harvard can counter that it has been bringing in talent of its own to rival the stacked arsenals of league competition. Hall is the only starting senior graduating from a deep ladder of players that will certainly challenge the ever-increasing competitiveness of the Ivy League and the college squash scene in general...