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...slightly surprising last week to watch al-Maliki appear to bite the hand that made him. In an unexpectedly angry response last week to questions about the Haditha slayings, al-Maliki accused U.S. forces of misconduct even beyond the actions of the Marines last...
...aware of the official opinion that the Houses are overcrowded and that an important element of ‘gracious living’ has disappeared on that account,” the report stated. “But we must report that on this score the undergraduates appear a good deal less concerned than the faculty.” A biting editorial in The Crimson in October of 1955 strongly disagreed with the Overseers’ assessment of students’ level of comfort, however.“There are several possible reasons that the Committee did not find...
...persistent intervention of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who together with Richardson spent weeks trying to broker a deal that would avoid major bloodshed. It was partly at Mandela's urging that Mobutu relinquished his dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same boat of a May 4 conclave between the two men, then angrily returned home, telling Kabila...
However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea. "Starbucks could easily start selling cereal, catering to a sophisticated palate, to complement their coffee," says Laurence Knight, president of Fletcher-Knight, a marketing consultancy based in Greenwich, Conn...
...apparent racial gap is puzzling--and ultimately inconclusive. Although other studies had shown similar effects of moderate drinking among pregnant Caucasian women, this one did not, says Jennifer Willford, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-author of the report. The gap does not appear to reflect differences in income or drinking patterns, Willford says, since the two groups were comparable in this particular population. And in her previous research, Willford says, she has found problems in learning and memory among 14-year-olds--both black and white--whose mothers drank during pregnancy...