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...real concern is not so much this straw company merger as [Harvard’s] warehousing of all this property,” Mattison said. “A lot of it just sits empty and vacant in the middle of a neighborhood...
...then tried to fire the Prime Minister, a move that was rejected by parliament. Pressure had been building for months for Yusuf to step down, and the infighting between government officials (whose power extends to one town - Baidoa - and a few square feet of Mogadishu) looked like the last straw. "President Abdullahi Yusuf has marginalized large parts of the population and exacerbated divisions," think tank International Crisis Group wrote in a recent report. "The latest confrontation with parliament and the Prime Minister has underlined that Yusuf hampers any progress on peace, has become a liability for the country's survival...
...Some time later—minutes? hours?—Roxanna found herself atop Zalathal the stallion, draped across his back as Frederick tickled her seductively with a piece of straw. Felicity was standing on a chair as the stallion unwillingly slurped a mixture of honey and oats off her stomach. The Stable Boy was on the chair behind her, stroking Felicity with practiced fingers as he murmured...
...complete with a bottle-top loop that can be clipped with a carabiner to a backpack; optional sports caps also are available. I opted for a conservative blue-gray bottle, but it comes in lots of colors and patterns, including argyle and houndstooth for more urbane sippers. The internal straw and bite mouthpiece made cleaning the bottle a little more tedious, especially after filling the bottle with iced tea, but it can be washed in the top rack of the dishwasher. Price: $11 (0.5 liter); $13 (0.75 liter); $15 (1 liter...
...Noria Mashumba, a Zimbabwean senior project officer at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, predicts that Zimbabweans will take matters into their own hands. "This cholera epidemic is really the last straw," she says. "The government is not going to be able to back away from this." But Vines sees little hope for a rebellion. "The population is fatigued, most of the middle class has left, energy is very low, and Zimbabwe's population is anyway very conservative," he says. "On top of that, the paradox of the cholera epidemic is that the outside emergency aid it attracts...