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...Senor said the turning point came when a truck bomb ripped through the United Nations’ Iraq headquarters in August...
...shifting, he was also moving from academia—where he had served as the director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—to politics. He returned to his native country in 2005 and rose to prominence in the opposition Liberal Party. This August, Ignatieff wrote an article, “Getting Iraq Wrong,” in which he recanted his support for the war. It was one of the first times an intellectual had publicly held himself accountable for his stance on the Iraq war. But the article, a lengthy rumination...
...strength against Japanese currency. Now, however, the yen is sinking to the bottom of the glass as the dollar has becomes featherweight. On Thursday it slipped to 99.7 yen, the lowest it has been since November 1995. Following suit on Friday, Tokyo stocks plummeted to their lowest levels since August 2005. Just a few months ago, the rate was 113 to the dollar...
Dimitar D. Sasselov, who directs the Origins of Life Initiative, met Venter at a small conference on the concept of life held in Connecticut last August. The two discovered their shared interest in synthetic biology, and Venter expressed interest in joining the Initiative...
...seen, the outbreak of violence was an ominous sign for Tibet, where resentment against Chinese rule has been simmering for years. An already tense situation has been exacerbated by China's sensitivity about its human rights image ahead of the staging of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. Some observers argue that what appeared to be carefully planned and executed protests - the first on such a scale in nearly two decades - were likely deliberately timed to take advantage of the media attention focused on the upcoming Games...