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...Army. In February he was posted to Friedberg, Germany, and took along his wife Mary Elizabeth and their three children. But while conducting a raid on a house in Baghdad, Parson, a trained sniper, was shot and killed. He had been scheduled for a promotion to staff sergeant in August, and his family has been told it will be awarded posthumously. --Reported by Constance E. Richards/Kannapolis...
...have produced a bumper crop of mosquitoes--and heightened fears of the West Nile virus they carry. So far this year, the virus is off to a relatively slow start (the first human cases began showing up last week), but experts predict that by the time it peaks in August, this year's West Nile season may be the worst yet--worse even than that of 2002, when 4,000 Americans were infected and 284 died...
After months of working to comply with new foreign-student registration systems established in the wake of Sept. 11, Harvard International Office (HIO) Director Sharon Ladd says her office is poised to meet a crucial deadline at the beginning of August...
...though Ladd says that the HIO will be ready to meet the SEVIS deadline, it will not meet August carefree...
...same reason that Washington is honoring him: his unflinching support of the U.S. on Iraq. Blair stands accused by legislators of his own party, including former members of his cabinet, of having agreed to a war in Iraq when he met with President Bush last August, and then proceeding to selectively assemble and exaggerate intelligence to make the case to support a decision he'd already taken. A limited parliamentary inquiry concluded simply that the jury was still out, and Blair is under mounting pressure to allow a more extensive independent inquiry...