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...wanted to get married, and so we just thought, Let's go there.' ANNA-BELL, a 6-year-old German girl, on trying to elope to Africa with her 5-year-old boyfriend; they were picked up by police at a railway station near her home...
...added that Harvard’s 2007 purchase of the Citgo station in Barry’s Corner, which is now an “empty, abandoned gas station,” was a “monument to Harvard’s damaging real estate practices...
...have been forced to revert to boilerplate denunciations of Israel. Hamas leaders insist that their political and security infrastructure remains intact, and they believe the steady stream of images of bloodshed and destruction in Gaza will be their most effective weapon against the Israeli invasion. Israel destroyed Hamas' TV station early in the bombing campaign, but the fact that it is still broadcasting by means unknown suggests that the organization, just like Israel, has placed a premium on shaping the perception of the conflict. Its focus is on maintaining and expanding its political power after the Israelis retreat...
Several weeks ago, Mexican police in Ciudad Juarez had some unexpected visitors—or at least parts of them. In a cooler left by a station near Ascension, the police discovered the heads of four men between the ages of 25 and 35. Officers reported some difficulty in identifying the severed heads, as they could belong to any of nearly a dozen local victims who were kidnapped by gunmen the previous week...
Visiting the sites of recent tragedy, one is always struck by how life goes on. In Mumbai, train passengers wait in crowds at the station, couples walk hand-in-hand on Juhu Beach, rickshaws honk incessantly and refuse to acknowledge lane indicators, customers haggle with street vendors, and the smell of spices and dust fills the air. In a word, all is normal.Reading the Mumbai papers, however, one gets an entirely different impression. The press has filled in the gaps in the city’s understanding of its recent attacks with a narrative of imminent danger and Pakistani aggression...