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...country joined politicians and other traditional leaders to sign a landmark agreement to establish what would be the country's first real national government since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Under the Kenyan-brokered deal, a new parliament selected along clan lines will appoint a President who in turn will appoint a Prime Minister. Crisis Looming DOMINICAN REPUBLIC At least six people died in clashes with police during a 48-hour strike to protest the spiraling economic crisis. The strike, which organizers said closed 97% of businesses, came as the U.S. Coast Guard struggles to stem...
...familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized." The anger remains strong, and no one has yet fully tapped into it. At the same time, African-American voters know that anger alone is not going to defeat George Bush...
...appointing Gutmann, Penn has become the first Ivy League school to appoint two female presidents in row, a development that Rodin has said would mark an important milestone on the road to gender equality in academia...
...added she was very happy with the committee’s decision to appoint Gupta as treasurer...
...void in oversight at PBH created by her promotion will make way for the first re-examination of public service oversight since 1996, when concerns about inefficiency prompted then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to appoint Kidd to a new position charged with supervising the student group...