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...precautions, the death last week of 363 visitors in a stampede during the "stoning of the devil" ritual is an all-too familiar tragedy. DECEMBER 1975 Some 200 pilgrims camped at Mina, east of Mecca, die when a cooking-gas cylinder explodes, sparking a fire that sweeps through the tent city NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1979 127 troops and 26 civilians die in fighting at Mecca's Grand Mosque after it is seized by Saudi militants, 102 of whom are also killed JULY 1987 Clashes between Saudi security forces and Iranian protesters leave 402 dead JULY 1989 5 Pakistanis...
...moment so unfavorable to a plainly pro-abortion message, it is critical that pro-choice groups at Harvard and across the country refocus the reproductive rights debate on EC, using the broadly appealing and morally sound language of Clinton to build a bigger tent, with room for millions more Americans than the one under which such groups are currently huddled...
After all, if pro-choice activists don’t build a bigger tent, millions of Americans might find their own moral tent at Wal-Mart instead...
...street, carrying and dragging people with terrible injuries, searching for a hospital that had ceased to exist. Using about $200,000 of his own cash, Khan says, he bought all the medicine and bandages he could find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains to hospitals 26 miles away. He bought 150 tents for homeless families and allowed them to camp on his land, and he has established...
...country that was, let’s be honest, more than a bit naughty towards China in the early 20th century. Who wins out? The director—Rob Marshall, a white guy from Wisconsin. “Something’s rotten in the State of that Tent Over There…is that two gay cowboys making out?”—“Brokeback Mountain” needs no introduction. It’s easily the most anticipated film of all time for every homosexual male in the U.S.A., not to mention...