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Brooke Kao became interested in fashion four years ago. Prior to that, she says, "I was one of those emo kids who wore the same black cargo pants every day and barely showered." Then one day, after thumbing through old issues of Vogue that her mom had lying around, "my heart began to change," she says.

BEIRUT: If by naming Beirut as the 2009 World Book Capital the United Nations wishes to encourage the Lebanese to study more, its latest report should be a must-read. Lebanon's fourth National Human Development Report , "Towards a Citizen's State," highlights a worrying discrepancy in adult reading rates between urban and rural regions.

LAST WEEKEND marked a milestone in the history of interfaith relations in Boston.

Washington, July 5 : Teens who suffer from migraine headaches are more likely to get lower grades, and less likely to graduate from high school, or attend college than those who don't have migraine, according to a study.

Beirut Arab University in Lebanon has selected UniversiTools software to manage its full scheduling needs across university campuses in Lebanon and Egypt.

Two events at the opposite ends of Latin America last Sunday seemed liked isolated events.

Happy Independence Day! You really should be at a barbeque or something right now, instead of inside looking at a computer, but since you are, and you chose this site, you get the Extra Special Independence Day Blog Spectacular.

Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel is an ecumenical group formed in 2007 by several Northfield residents who had traveled to the Holy Land.

When the ousted president of Honduras hit Washington this week demanding a return to power, he got meetings with a White House advisor and a top U.S. diplomat.

President Barack Obama introduces Nancy-Ann DeParle on March 2 as director for health reform.

BEIRUT: The Internal Security Forces arrested late on Wednesday and early Thursday two members of a gang who ambushed and robbed, one day earlier a group of six students from the American University of Beirut.

Date : Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:00:45 +0500 THE GEORGE MOURADIAN INTERVIEW Michael Shelton Spinal Column Online http://www.spinalcolumnonline.com/Articles-i-2009-07-01-70028.113117_The_George_Mouradian_Interview.html July 1, 2009 July 01, 2009 - George Mouradian, 82, is a Commerce Township resident of Armenian descent working through his writing to ...

From : Date : Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:25:35 PDT PRESS OFFICE Diocese of the Armenian Church of America 630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Contact: Karine Abalyan Tel: 686-0710; Fax: 779-3558 E-mail: publicrelations@armeniandiocese.org Website: www.armenianchurch.nets June 26, 2009 Archbishop Aykazian, Diocesan Legate, Gives Talk at American ...

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The judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggests that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity, a new analysis shows.

Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak stated repeatedly during a keynote address on Thursday that the West Bank was occupied territory and that he hoped a poliltical solution would be reached to solve the problems connected with the occupation.

June 21, 2009 a ' For those "Lost Boys" of Sudan who made it to San Diego, California this weekend for a national networking conference, future opportunities and service to homeland were foremost before a community whose energies largely have long gone toward maintaining internal bonds and adjusting to life in America.

The Sunday Oregonian's Opinion section featured a commentary on the topic of Immigration, which included statements from those opposed to reform.

At Union Station about 9 a.m., Anika Roth, 24, an AmeriCorps volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank, told staff writer Rick Rojas that she and her housemates received calls last night from around the world from friends and relatives asking about their welfare.

Reports from the Association of American University Presses annual meeting : Scott Jaschik, Change or Die? , Inside Higher Ed , June 22, 2009.