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Graduate school students who live above Bartley's said that the fire alarm did not sound...
...line drew a lot of laughs, but in many ways it also highlighted how much this war-scarred country has changed over the 19 months that Petraeus has been at the helm of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq. These days, alarm over sectarian bloodletting spiraling out of control has given way to heated politicking, nascent reconstruction efforts and grumblings over the lack of basic services like clean water and reliable electricity. Still, the spike in violence over the past few days - some 70 people have been killed since Saturday - highlights why Petraeus has repeatedly said it's too early...
...rarely misses an opportunity to sound the Yanqui alarm when doing so has domestic political benefit. Critics, who are questioning whether the alleged coup plot was actually real, were quick to suggest that this latest anti-gringo outburst would conveniently deflect attention away from allegedly incriminating evidence against Chávez and his government emerging in an international corruption trial that began this month in Miami. The case involves a suitcase filled with $800,000 in cash that was seized at the Buenos Aires airport in the summer of 2007, allegedly being delivered on behalf...
...Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out.As a leader of female and minority recruitment, Martin compiled and released two reports on hiring. Her first report raised alarm when it found that the female tenure rate in 2005-2006 had fallen to 21 percent—half the rate of the previous year.Martin started a mentoring program for untenured female professors, where junior professors would be paired with senior faculty from a different department within the same division...
...Even though Louisiana (in addition to Texas) has already declared a state of emergency, government officials must puncture the popular perception that Gustav was a false alarm. That perception is partly driving what's been dubbed "hurricane fatigue," but also complacency: many residents say they won't evacuate for Ike, or future hurricanes. To counter such sentiment, Mark Cooper, director of the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says, "All we have to do is talk about what happened during Katrina, and they'll realize what needs to be done." Earlier this week, when...