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...office has already announced that it will examine the intent of the donors of any work that Brandeis attempts to sell, to determine whether they placed restrictions on what uses the school could make of it. Jonathan Lee, chairman of the Rose's board of overseers, has also begun discussions with Coakley's office to see if there are other ways it might intervene. Meanwhile Brandeis has to embark on the complicated process of identifying just which works, if any, it wants to bring to market - a market that's getting worse by the day. "This is going to take...
...India once welcomed refugees from Bangladesh. An estimated 4 million of them settled in India after the 1971 war that created its new neighbor. But their numbers have swelled to at least 10 million and a backlash has started. The fence, now two-thirds complete, was begun in earnest three years ago as a way to stop illegal migration and terrorist groups operating in the border areas. The siege of Mumbai - the most dramatic of more than a dozen deadly attacks on Indian cities in the past year - has turned the fence into a political imperative; it is presented...
...first, the Kremlin tried to prop up the currency, but after blowing through tens of billions of dollars in September and October, it changed course in November and has since begun a policy of phased devaluation. That's calling up bad memories of the ruble's collapse in 1998 and prompting nervous talk around kitchen tables about what...
...very fact that developing countries like Brazil and Indonesia and China have now begun to take [climate] initiatives makes it a very different situation," an optimistic Gore told the Senate foreign relations committee. "This is a very different outlook than was the case in Kyoto...
...decision to withdraw his name was Daschle's alone, the adviser said, adding, "The President was fine, was more than ready to hang tough on this." But Daschle had begun to realize that even though he probably would prevail in the end and win Senate confirmation, it would come at great cost to the Obama Administration...