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...Crimson decided to do its own study (we guarantee ours is much more cost-efficient). After two minutes, 119,000 Google results, and zero dollars (if you don’t include the coffee that we’re drinking to curb our pangs of hunger), we stumbled upon the exact same answer...
...Keep in shape. You never know when you'll be called upon to save your own life, or help someone else save theirs...
...saying that he is hopeful and completely convinced we're going to come through this." Obama will almost certainly demonstrate that sentiment on Tuesday night, if for no other reason than it is what every President in modern memory has done when addressing a joint session of Congress - reflect upon the current challenges, while promising that America's greatest days lie ahead...
...Shari'a system agreed upon with Mohammed, says Shoukat Ali Yousafzai, will resolve criminal cases within four months and settle civil matters within six months. Judges will be advised by religious scholars, he says, "but there will be no beheadings, hand choppings or ban on women working or studying...
...Mohammed's success will hinge on his ability to persuade his former acolyte to end his insurgency. Fazlullah learned at the feet of Mohammed in the 1990s, fought alongside him in Swat and later in Afghanistan, and married his daughter. Both men were imprisoned upon their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift that ferries people across the Swat river. According to local lore, it was after his brother was killed in a U.S. missile strike on the village of Damadola...