Harvard Honors 16-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Who Survived Taliban Assassination Attempt
A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being honored as Harvard's 2013 humanitarian of the year.
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A Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being honored as Harvard's 2013 humanitarian of the year.
Anger management classes these days must be booming, no pun intended.
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There are some many things in today's world I don't understand, but at or near the top of those "things" is WikiLeaks. I'm not sure how it started nor how it will end, but if it doesn't include someone being indicted and convicted for treason and subsequently hanged in the public square, this country is in much sadder shape than we already know that it is.
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