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...predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question is, Is he really in charge?" a U.S. intelligence expert told me. "Is Syria singular or plural...
...Brazilian public where, according to Gil, anyone has access to the use of equipment for artistic projects. The goal for 2006, Gil explains, is 1,000 of these culture points, concentrated in poverty-stricken areas, where manifestations of culture can be a positive force for the community, especially the younger generations. Not only would these cultural centers be individually effective, but according to Gil, they would also act as a way of linking communities...
With Harvard coach Katey Stone firmly at the wheel—and a core group of younger talent along with the veteran leadership—it seems that the Crimson women’s hockey program will only add to its history in the years to come. Since coming to Harvard, Stone has a record of 221-102-13 and has been able to consistently recruit some of the nation’s best talent to come to Cambridge...
...change and reform has since last December taken the word kefaya (meaning "enough") as its slogan, and organized sit-ins and demonstrations against a fifth term for Mubarak, and to denounce the principle of presidential inheritance, marking their opposition to the possibility that Mubarak be replaced by his younger son, Gamal. Just last week, some demonstrators even took the risk of shouting "down with Mubarak" in a heavily policed demonstration outside Cairo University...
...birth defects. Now a major study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has confirmed what smaller studies had only hinted at: that women who consume large amounts of folate (in the region of 1,000 micrograms a day) have a lower risk of developing hypertension-for younger women, it's significantly lower...