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...Over the past six months, it's become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day, and to continue to do so, in the most honest and direct way possible." - Announcing his departure on Lou Dobbs Tonight...
...ensure the bodies of unknowns remained unidentified, even going so far as to destroy relevant documents about where bodies were discovered and with what, if any, personal effects. But with the advent of DNA testing in the 1980s and '90s, the tradition of burying an unknown soldier has begun to decline. Most soldiers around the world are now required to supply blood samples upon joining the military to ensure their bodies can be identified if they are slain in the line of duty. Although military personnel put their lives at risk for their countries, this requirement, at least, can provide...
Lellouche's verbal spanking of Tory Euroskeptics was delivered in an interview with the Guardian on Nov. 4. It immediately sparked a controversy in both nations that has only begun to settle. Lellouche was quoted criticizing promises by Conservative leaders not only to oppose continuing E.U. integration if their party wins next year's general elections in Britain, but also to wrest back political and economic powers previously ceded to Brussels. The pledges by Conservative leader David Cameron came at the very moment E.U. integration took a huge step forward with the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty earlier this...
...Iraq's improving security situation has eliminated many of the excuses for postponing the normalization process in Kirkuk envisaged by the constitution, and Kurdish politicians have begun to suspect that al-Maliki intends to use the central government's growing strength to push back against gains won by the Kurds in the aftermath of the invasion, when the government in Baghdad was weak. The central government has already blocked oil pumped under the auspices of the Kurdish regional government from being exported in Iraqi pipelines, even though revenue from the sales would have been shared with the central government...
Indeed, for the four seniors—Atkinson, Dan Furman, Nikhil Balaraman, and Thomas Bailey—the championships marked a bittersweet ending, but Atkinson asserted that the squad has begun moving in the right direction...