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Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes 
Mail & Guardian
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Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos, and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on
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Travellers warned as fear of violence grows in Bangkok
Sydney Morning Herald
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BANGKOK: Australians have been warned about travelling to Bangkok this weekend, as fears grow that huge anti-government protests will turn violent.
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Today's class: surviving the internet
Sydney Morning Herald
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Queensland teachers have been urged to play a stronger role in preventing the shocking vandalism of tribute Facebook pages.
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A U.S.-Trained Pakistani Is Said to Support the Taliban
New York Times
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan With his white turban, untrimmed beard and worn army jacket, the man known uniformly here by his nom de guerre, Col.
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British Coroner Blames Military For Soldiers' Death
National Public Radio
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A coroner in Britain has ruled that four British troops who died in Afghanistan were 'unlawfully killed.' He pointed the finger of blame not at the Taliban, but at the British
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Soros Would Make It Harder For People Like Him To Make Billions
National Public Radio
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March 9, 2010 Soros in Hong Kong last month. (Mike Clarke/AFP/) The man who famously 'broke the Bank of England' in the early '90s by playing within the regulatory system of
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Pilgrim Non Grata in Mecca
New York Times
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I was tempted to turn my abaya into a black masquerade cloak and sneak into Mecca, just hop over the Tropic of Cancer to the Red Sea and crash the ultimate heaven's gate.
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future generations
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
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Do we have moral obligations to future generations? Most of us believe that we do.
MyWire Reference Collection
Baghdad
Oxford Ency of the Modern World
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Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, with a population of around 7 million people. It is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab Middle East after Cairo.
Clock Making and Time Measurement
Oxford Ency Economic History
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With the possible exception of the Maya, ours is the most time-obsessed culture the world has ever known.
Fascism and Protofascism
Oxford Ency of the Modern World
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[ This entry includes three subentries, an overview and discussions of fascism in Europe and in Japan .] Overview
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eroticism in music
Oxford Companion to Music
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The inherent irrationalism of music, its dependence on effective patterns of tension and release, pulse and rhythm, and its emphasis on emotion and feeling
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Mob Violence and Vigilantism
Oxford Companion to American Law
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Mob violence and vigilantism share a common trait: the use of violence to impose social control or to achieve popular justice .
Sigmund Freud
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
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(1856 -- 1939 ). Freud is sometimes said to have discovered the unconscious , but it is not a claim he made himself.
Emmett Louis Till
Oxford Ency of African Americans
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1941 -- 1955 African American teenager who was an early victim of civil rights–era violence .
