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...they're integrating [the iPhone app] with our central system," said Tom Black, Stanford's registrar, who noted that the team was held to the same level of scrutiny as an outside vendor. "Usually student apps aren't allowed to go anywhere near that. We're breaking some ground here...
Historically, Presidents have suspended the Posse Comitatus Act by invoking the Insurrection Act. President Dwight D. Eisenhower did just that in 1957 when segregationists tried to prevent black students from enrolling and attending public school in Little Rock, Ark. John F. Kennedy also used the act in 1962 and 1963 to send troops to enforce desegregation in Mississippi and Alabama. Similarly, George H.W. Bush sent troops to quell the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Assistant Secretary of Defense McHale notes that the troops being trained for disaster response under the new program would not even be the ones called upon...
...some fluke or perennial candidate."- on his belief that he would become Illinois' first black governor. He subsequently ran for office three more times. Chicago Tribune...
...sound filled the azure Mediterranean sky: the rolling boom of Israeli bombs and missiles slamming into Gaza. Many Israelis climbed the low, green hills outside the city of Sderot and cheered while watching black pillars of smoke rise over Gaza as a wave of 64 Israeli jet fighters struck again and again. It meant that Israel's leaders were hitting back at the Gaza militants who had rained rockets on the communities of southern Israel even weeks before Dec. 19, when an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas officially ended. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...
...underneath the black smoke, the Israeli bombs weren't hitting just the rocket men of Hamas, but civilians too. With 1.5 million people packed tightly into Gaza's jumble of cities, towns and refugee camps, it was inevitable that hundreds of ordinary Palestinians would become collateral victims. The Israeli bombardments pounded Hamas strongholds - the Interior Ministry, suspected caches of rockets, hideouts of top militant leaders - but they also caught five sisters asleep at home next to a targeted mosque, kids coming home from school, and a graduation ceremony for police cadets and their proud families. By Dec. 30, more than...