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Army officials say that so long as the mini-surge in Afghanistan is limited to the recently announced boost of 3,200 Marines, the Army should be able to begin trimming the length of deployments starting in August. While some units currently deployed are expected to have to serve up to 15 months, the Army is hoping that any brigades sent overseas after August 1 will have their deployments capped at 12 months...
...month cease-fire that Moqtada al-Sadr called in August 2007 is set to expire at the end of February. Observers believe the freeze in operations of his Mahdi Army is a major reason for the recent security successes in Iraq; and most expected it to be extended. But recently the Sadr camp has said that it might end the cease-fire. On January 18, a spokesman for Sadr in the religious capital of Najaf issued a statement warning that "the rationale for the decision to extend the freeze of the Mahdi Army is beginning to wear thin...
...Tokyo on Saturday, where finance ministers and central bank governors discussed how to minimize what U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr., referred to as the "spillover of capital markets to the modern global economy" - that is, the global turmoil that has built up in markets since last August...
Dartmouth College will soon begin a search for its new President after James E. Wright announced Monday that he will step down as President of the College in June 2009. Wright, 68, has served as the college’s 16th president since August 1998, and has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty for nearly forty years, according to a university press release. Like University President Drew G. Faust, Wright is a preeminent scholar of American history. Wright began discussing his departure with Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees Chair, Charles E. Haldeman, in late fall...
...maybe not, which leaves only one other means of avoiding a vicious floor fight at August's Democratic National Convention in Denver. In the past few weeks, the Clinton and Obama campaigns have both stepped up their courtship, cajoling and sometimes arm-twisting of super-delegates. These are the roughly 800 party insiders - including elected officials, national-committee members and state chairmen - who get to vote at the convention by virtue of the positions they hold...