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...Well, yes and no. Readers may find some of Jiang's purplest prose indigestible. "Desperate cries rose from the herd as the wolves tore into one horse after another - sides and chests spurted blood, the stench of which drove the crazed predators to commit acts of frenzied cruelty," is his description of a wolf attack on a herd of prize horses. "The raw meat in their mouths meant nothing to the wolves: only the murderous tearing of horseflesh mattered." More problematically, the book contains puzzling chunks in which Jiang details his pet theory: that thousands of years of farming have...
...Erez, al-Wahedi says he tore up Shin Bet's phone number. "I was angry and frustrated. I knew that if I didn't have surgery immediately, even the best surgeon couldn't fix my eye," he claims. Contacted by TIME, Shin Bet denied approaching al-Wahedi to collaborate and say that he was turned back at Erez because of his involvement in "activities dangerous to the state...
Moments later, supporters of the detained judges, which included Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, stormed the judges' residential colony in Islamabad and tore away security barricades and barbed wire, shouting "Go, Musharraf, go!" In his first appearance since his detention, Chaudhry appeared on the balcony of his house and calmly thanked the nation for the efforts to free him. His benign manner, however, could be misleading. If Chaudhry and his Supreme Court are reinstated - as the new coalition has promised it will be - Musharraf may find himself...
After a near-perfect season in which the Harvard women’s hockey team tore through the best competition that its conference had to offer, the Crimson now takes its game to the national stage.No.1 Harvard faces off against the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green tomorrow afternoon at the Bright Hockey Center in the first round of the NCAA championship. The Crimson met few obstacles in its path to the NCAA tournament, finishing the season 31-1-0 overall and 20-0-0 in ECAC play. Averaging over 3.56 goals per game and only .91 against, Harvard left...
...paper that precinct captains handed out and then collected on the night of March 4, when roughly one million people turned out. Some precincts were so overwhelmed with attendees that some precinct chairs went to Kinko's to run off extra ballots while others, according to the AP, simply tore down the "DEMOCRATS VOTE HERE" signs and used the backs for signatures - one column for Clinton, another for Obama. About 300 people showed up at one caucus site in Austin only to discover the small building arranged for the meeting (and which might have accomodated 50 people) was locked...