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The uprising against the government of President Assad in Syria is a year old this week and the news bulletins have been dominated by the rising number of…

A year ago Sunday, protests were held in Daraa against the arrests and beatings of a group of young people who spray-painted graffiti on the walls of their school. And so began the uprising, which in some parts of Syria has turned into an armed insurgency and seen government troops respond with untold brutality.

Footnote is set in Jerusalem's Hebrew University and deals with the implacable rivalry between two scholars of the Talmud, the complex and sacred text of the Jewish religious tradition. These competitive scholars, the misanthropic Eliezer and the gregarious Uriel, also just happen to be father and son.

In NCAA men's basketball action Thursday night, Iowa State defeated the the University of Connecticut 77-64. The Huskies were last year's champions. Also, VCU beat Wichita State 62-59 to advance to weekend play.

In this news update:Teaching positions will be trimmed in the Tulsa Public SchoolsAn execution is carried out at McAlesterSmart meters comes to TU

The student government at the University of California, Irvine voted Thursday night to call for the resignation of Dr. Hazem Chehabi, who is the chairman of its school's foundation. He also serves as the Syrian consul general in California. He is a personal friend of Syria's dictator Bashar Assad.

But it said its failures did not directly contribute to the blast, which killed 29 coal miners in 2010.

He and his brother wrote "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and "It's a Small World."

The Hunger Games has been a huge success, and the film adaptation is only weeks away. Now, publishers are looking for the next big dystopian hit.

The index dropped just more than 200 points, about 1.6 percent, on concerns about weak economic growth around the world.