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Saakashvili has faced two major challenges to his leadership. In November 2007, his riot police responded to antigovernment demonstrators by beating them, arresting their leaders and shutting down two television stations. In April, the opposition took to the streets again to call for his resignation. But this time, Saakashvili was restrained. He let the protesters shut down the streets of the capital. Georgians grew tired of the inconvenience, and eventually everyone went home. Many opposition figures say they won't try to force him to resign before his term ends in 2013. Even Khidasheli, an ardent critic of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Misha: Georgia's Saakashvili | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...April 2005, sheriff's deputies reached a suburban Seattle home in time to prevent a firebomb from detonating. But there was nothing the sheriff's department could do to defuse another volatile situation at the site: a feud between the explosives teams that showed up including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Official: The ATF and FBI Don't Get Along | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...credit rating report issued by Moody’s Investors Service in April said that Harvard was considering halving its capital spending and new debt issuance due to investment losses. The report said that Harvard had previously planned on issuing $3 billion in new debt over the next few years to fund campus expansions, in addition to spending roughly $1 billion a year on capital projects...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University May Assume More Debt | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Starting in April, sudsy cartoon hands were everywhere, promoting hand-washing on billboards, at soccer games, in classrooms and on TV. "[Nayeli] was taught at school, and then would remind us to do it at home," says Claudia Quispe, Nayeli's mom. It's not that she and her family didn't wash their hands before, explains Quispe, an indigenous Aymara shop owner, but they didn't do it as much or as thoroughly as they should have. Within her family, Quispe thinks the public-health campaign has been a success: "Normally both Nayeli and my 3-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1: Swine Flu's Collateral Health Benefits in Bolivia | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Report on Harvard House Renewal, released by the College administration in April 2009, stressed the need to upgrade the Houses for 21st-century living, while still maintaining their unique “Harvard aura...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Preserving Some of Harvard’s Best Kept Secrets | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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