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...Bush Justice Department moved the case to federal court in Miami, where Padilla was convicted of providing material support to terrorists and other charges. The Obama Administration followed suit by moving al-Marri's case to federal court shortly after taking office - the suspect pleaded guilty last April to conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
Medical experts have hailed the revised policy at Partners Healthcare—which owns Harvard-affiliates Mass. General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals—as one of the most stringent caps on pharmaceutical companies. The policy, initially released last April, comes as medical school faculty ties to industry have faced national scrutiny and growing criticism in the past couple of years...
...agreement. Belgium's Parliament had already unanimously requested that NATO withdraw the weapons, while a 2006 poll found that almost 70% of people in the four countries want the U.S. nukes withdrawn. In October, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared that Barack Obama's speech in Prague in April, in which the U.S. President called for countries to renew the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, had "opened the door" to a nuke-free Europe. (See pictures of Obama's eight months of diplomacy...
...operations in Afghanistan, the death toll among employees has been "almost miraculously light." He adds: "Fate may have caught up with us today." The Khost death toll is second only to the record for the number of CIA staffers killed in a single day. On April 18 1983, eight members of the Agency were killed when the US Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a Hizballah suicide bomb. A retired officer who was then in active service says the Agency "was in shock for about one day... and then...
Along with the revised calendar came a new between-semester break, known as January Term. After the calendar change was adopted, College students and administrators began envisioning program ideas for J-Term, ranging from intensive language study to classes on metalsmithing. However, this past April, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced that the College's financial situation had forced it to abort its plans to offer J-Term programming...