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...through downtown Riyadh. Abdullah has green-lighted a very limited population control campaign to address what may be the gravest long-term threat to stability, a birthrate unofficially put at 4.2%, one of the world's highest. (The population of Saudi nationals is 17.4 million.) Yet he fears the wrath of religious leaders, who claim that Islamic teaching calls for large families...
Those who choose to live dangerously and try unapproved mixed-gender arrangements may face official wrath, even if their intentions are platonic. Matthew A. Romero ’02 and Susan P. Long ’02 tried to share a nest in Pforzheimer this fall, when rooming problems and sexuality issues within their blocking group led to it seemingly being “the only feasible arrangement.” Unfortunately, their resident tutor happened to live right across the hall and he immediately put an end to the violation. Romero and Long were made to move their belongings...
...table in the Montreal Casino over intersession when he exclaimed, “I’ve got this game figured out. I just can’t lose money at this table.” His hubris seems to have brought the wrath of the gambling gods upon him; after three more hands, Johnson ended up down $2,800. Having lost all his cash and maxed out his bank account, Johnson had no funds for cabfare and was forced to navigate Montreal’s confusing bus system to get back to his hotel. It took him three days...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...
...above all a prophet—offering a “prophetic Christian perspective,” as he frequently puts it, on the evils of the contemporary world. Racism, homophobia, capitalist oppression of all stripes—these are the objects of West’s Isaiah-like wrath, which he calls down not only on the usual round of suspects, but on the black middle class, which he condemns for being “paid off” and castigates for their “conspicuous consumption and hedonistic indulgence.” Is there a slight contradiction...