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...fires, there will surely be debates over the wisdom of Australia's standard policy of advising residents to either flee a fire early or stay in their homes and wait it out. John Brumby, the premier of the fire-hit Australian state of Victoria, told a local radio station on Monday that "people will want to review that ... There is no question that there were people who did everything right, put in place their fire plan, and it [didn't] matter - their house was just incinerated...
...information they had about how great this place was, the better it would be," he says. "That may have backfired." But as the days went on the story kept changing. A few days after the initial announcement, Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz told an interviewer for a Boston public radio station that his school didn't intend to sell the entire collection, just some of it. And one day after that, Reinharz said the school would not have to sell anything in the unlikely event that the stock market recovered. All the same, he added, the Rose Museum would be closed...
Eric Holder Jr. was trained long ago in crime and punishment. He grew up in the East Elmhurst section of Queens, N.Y.--so populated by cops and firefighters that rush hour looked like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have...
...Ahmed, who was displaced from her home in southern Baghdad during sectarian violence, managed to cast a vote at station No. 65 the central part of the city. But she said many Iraqis like her had trouble. "The whole operation is a failure," said Ahmed. "And certainly we will find evidence of a lot of fraud. The problem of displaced people is not solved...
...Predictions are difficult," said Khalid Oglah, the chief election official overseeing polling station No. 65. "The ballot boxes will reveal who is the winner...