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McCartney comes to the position with a strong administrative background. In addition to serving as an academic dean at GSE, she is also a member of the University-wide Allston Master Planning Committee...
...speeding things up, more than 1,000 travelers at Orlando International Airport signed up within 24 hours of last week's rollout of Clear Card, the first privately run prescreening security program. Customers who pay a $79.95 annual fee and submit to fingerprint and iris scanning--plus a background check by the Department of Homeland Security--can be ushered through a dedicated fast lane at airport security checkpoints, exempt from secondary searches. Verified Identity Pass Inc. is trying to reassure civil libertarians, who are concerned that the system could be used to spy on consumers, with a promise...
Early on, you found your multiracial background a hindrance to getting roles. Has Hollywood changed? My career is proof that it has. We don't really delve into the origins of Keanu Reeves, Jessica Alba, the Rock...
...tactic has historically been used when two conditions are met: first, insurgents feel they are fighting foreign troops in places they regard as their homeland (Osama bin Laden, for example, has railed against U.S. bases in the Arabian Peninsula); and second, when the occupiers come from a different religious background, insurgents are able to paint them as subjugators of their faith and its followers. Those conditions, it turns out, co-exist prominently in the Muslim world today, particularly in the Middle East. --With reporting by Aparisim Ghosh
...every First Lady ever since and also, perhaps, for the First Husbands of tomorrow. If Mary's tortured ghost (and she believed in ghosts--they were among her only companions at the end) could offer those First Spouses any advice, it might come down to this: Stay in the background, avoid having your fortune told and don't--at least not before speaking to your spouse--purchase new clothes or change the White House wallpaper. Your nation may soften its view of you someday, but it could take a long, long time...