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...first the Ayatullah's fate was unclear. The blast occurred moments after the Friday morning prayers, and most of those outside believed he had not yet left the shrine to Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, in the heart of Najaf. Assuming that al-Hakim was still inside, many had thought he would have been protected from the explosion by the shrine's massive western wall and its huge door, the Bab-e-Kibbleh, which remained standing. But when the bomb went off, the 64-year-old cleric was outside the shrine and about to get into...
...make Washington the guaranteed buyer for vaccines and drugs to combat bioterrorism. If it gets under way next month as planned--Senate passage still awaits--billions of federal dollars will be available to develop, purchase and stockpile those drugs over the next 10 years. The exact dollar amount remains unclear, but when the House approved Project BioShield in July by a vote of 421-2, it moved to cap the figure at $5.6 billion over 10 years, not the $6 billion Bush had first sought...
...always, it is unclear whether the North is bluffing. But Pyongyang's delegates to the talks had never been in a convivial mood. According to an American diplomat at the sessions, North Korea's representative, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the U.S. had left the North no choice but to declare itself a nuclear power--and that Pyongyang would soon conduct a nuclear test. The next day Kelly recounted what he had been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly...
Several law professors—long opponents of moving to Allston, who in 1999 voted nearly-unanimously against a cross-river move—could not be reached for comment last night, because they were at a party in the Charles Hotel. It is unclear whether the professors were toasting their apparent victory in the Allston battle or simply celebrating the new term...
With Harvard no longer an option, it is unclear where Hornstine will spend what should have been her first year of college. Hornstine had also been accepted to Princeton, Duke, Stanford and Cornell universities, but it’s too late for her to enter those freshman classes, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this summer...