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...respond? In Somalia, authority is notionally held by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), led by an Islamist who preaches pragmatic engagement with the West. The TFG was installed by Ethiopia, a principal U.S. ally in Africa, after its forces invaded Somalia in 2006 and toppled an earlier Islamist government whose more extreme members had unwisely declared jihad on Somalia's bigger and more Christian neighbor to the west. But many members of the TFG seem to effectively live in Nairobi. (Exceptions include President Sheik Sharif Ahmed and his Defense Minister, Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a veteran warlord who survived an assassination...
...Russia switched borders a lot. The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish. Also, that making a big deal about your genealogy isn't for Jews; it's for Wasps and Southerners and Democrats and other groups whose past is brighter than their future...
...Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to track down an escaped patient from the insane asylum. But that is only one of the enigmas Teddy must unravel. The doctors who run the institution, Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), often respond to Teddy's questions with strange smiles whose meaning eludes both him and the audience. Teddy too has dark secrets: searing memories of his late wife Dolores (Michelle Williams) and of his wartime experiences liberating Nazi death camps. It's hard staying sane in a place where everyone seems to have lost his mind...
...seemed, did the entire Crimson team. Although neither squad could keep pace with Ivy powerhouse Princeton, whose men’s and women’s teams swept the championships with 181 and 125 points, respectively, Harvard will look to build on its momentum as various athletes prepare for individual competition at ECACs and IC4As next weekend...
Most recently, Tribe argued Wilkie v. Robbins before the Supreme Court in 2006, representing a ranch owner in Wyoming whose business was compromised when federal land officers pushed him to surrender part of his land...