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...cold, gray afternoon a year ago, I stood on the deck of our newly purchased, half-constructed house about an hour outside Shanghai, wondering what, exactly, I had gotten myself into. My wife, a Shanghai native, and I had moved back to China from New York City in the spring of 2004, and 21⁄2 years later we had decided to take the plunge. We bought a three-story, five-bedroom townhouse way out in the suburbs, in a town called New Songjiang, a place that was then - and remains now - very much a work in progress...
...television channel, Al Manar, broadcast a more recent picture of Mughniyah. It showed a plump, middle-aged man wearing combat fatigues and a forage cap and sporting a thick beard streaked with grey. His wire-framed spectacles gave him a benign, almost professorial, look, belying the fact that Mughniyah stood accused of killing more Americans than any other militant before the attacks of September...
...Kumar’s two wins were the only ones of the day and they maintain the senior’s undefeated record in doubles and singles.Junior Chris Clayton’s perfect record was also on the line Sunday, but a formidable 12th-ranked Treat Huey stood in the way. Huey handed Clayton his first defeat of the year by a score of 6-3, 7-5.The bottom of the Harvard lineup couldn’t keep up with the Cavaliers and all five singles losses came in straight sets. “The singles really told the story...
...indiscriminate thuggery had damaged Sadr's reputation among average Iraqis. So had the perception that Sadr was an Iranian stooge. Some of elements of the Madhi Army had morphed into groups that answered directly to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and were operating beyond Sadr?s control. He has stood by as those elements have been arrested by U.S. forces...
...feel of an awards show in there," says David Scarpa, writer of The Day The Earth Stood Still, as he exited the L.A. meeting, which followed an earlier, equally celebratory one in New York attended by some 500 WGA members. "There were a lot of standing ovations." The crowd cheered Verrone and negotiator David Young, as well as the Screen Actors Guild, for that union's solidarity with the writers over the last few months...