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...Gregory ManBearPig-kiw: Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny do battle with this beast in their tiny mountain town...
...sacred annals of crazy young love, Atheer Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants...
...Though Atheer and Miriam may sound impulsive, there are many such stories of love and danger in Ankawa, which is both a beacon of refuge for the country's endangered Christians, and, perhaps, the romance capital of Iraq. The main street leading into town is lined with bridal shops, and there are weddings almost every night during the high season in summer. Every Thursday and Sunday evening, teenagers and young adults used to promenade along a road nicknamed "Love Street" because of all the heavy flirting going on in between stops at ice cream parlors. Nowadays, the action has shifted...
...straight in the Ivy League, the Crimson returned home on Friday against Cornell as a collection of bruised and battered souls. Having suffered through a five-game road stretch that saw no victories but plenty of misery, the sight of the Big Red (15-5, 7-0) rolling to town promised more of the same for the Harvard faithful. Heartbreak was in order for the struggling Crimson (6-17, 1-6 Ivy), which dropped a nail-biter, 72-71, in the final seconds.Consider this scene at Lavietes on Friday. Sophomore Jeremy Lin, trying to take his man off the dribble...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...