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...leader with such power. The challenges he faced were extraordinary - waging a counterinsurgency campaign long after the U.S. military had forgotten the lessons of the last one it fought, attempting to transform a Pentagon bureaucracy notoriously resistant to change, coping with a U.S. government deficient in civilian capacity to assist in postwar stabilization and reconstruction...
...PSNI said in a statement it would accept the decision. "Nevertheless, the investigation into this atrocity remains active and ongoing. Police will continue to endeavor to use every possible legal means to access information which may assist their inquiries...
...attack left the 25-year-old student battling for life in hospital and three other party goers who rushed to assist him also injured by the interlopers. On the same weekend about 700km to the north-east in Sydney, Australia's largest city, Indian hospitality graduate Rajesh Kumar was at his home reading a book when he was hit by a petrol bomb. The bomb caused burns to 30% of his body and left him in hospital in a critical condition...
...States after graduation. In today’s competitive global environment it would be a mistake for America to lose talented, enthusiastic workers to other countries because of xenophobic fears or excessive red tape. Furthermore, in a matter of more local concern, we hope that the federal government will assist the Boston public school system in its present hour of need. This year, the district will cut 900 positions, 403 of which are teaching jobs. As a result, class sizes will likely increase and students will get less attention. Federal assistance is needed, and at the very least, Congress should...
...Despite hostile foreign policies that the United States still holds towards Cuba, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is nevertheless committed to fostering academic exchange with Cuban institutions. The Cuban Studies Program, established in 1999, strives to bring together faculty and students who study Cuba, to assist Cuban scholars and scientists, and to strengthen institutional bonds of study. According to Lybia M. Rivera, Cuba Program Coordinator, the program has been vastly successful thus far, bringing Cuban scholars to the United States, organizing academic conferences, and making strides in a variety of studies, from tropic medicine to social...