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...Upon being taken to Kenya for schooling and reintegrating into regular life: I knew I made mistakes in this strange place. When I was given a cup, I broke it; when I ate food at a table, I threw chicken bones over my shoulder onto the floor; and when I played with white children, I made them cry ... I knew I was different because I was a soldier, and although other children never knew my secret, I think they could sense it. I had dreams at night that made me shake and sweat in fear as the war buried inside...
...lays out the University’s proposals for expansion. Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said that the troubled economic climate is forcing the University to analyze all capital projects, and that it is unlikely that the University will file an updated IMP as planned in early 2009.Harvard broke ground on the science complex—its only Allston expansion initiative approved thus far—in 2008, following a cooperation agreement with the City of Boston to provide $25 million in community benefits. But the University is now considering alternate locations to house its stem cell research department...
...government money, there's a golden-parachute limit of a year's compensation. The $500,000 pay and restricted-stock limits still apply, but shareholders (not a friendly constituency these days) can waive them in a nonbinding advisory vote, and management can act accordingly. (Read "Why Your Bank Is Broke...
...Israel, not Hamas, that broke the ceasefire, according to Kennedy, because Israel “carried out an armed incursion” in November 2008. He does not bother to explain that the reason Israeli forces entered Gaza was to stop Hamas from tunneling into Israel to kidnap soldiers, as it had in the past. He trusts Hamas’s version of events, even though Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority itself, blamed Hamas for starting...
...Arabic fluently, reportedly went to a mosque in Algeria to look for sources was an amateurish ploy that could only have drawn suspicion on him. Since the Justice Department began looking into the allegations late last year, Warren has been called back to Washington, according to ABC News, which broke the story. Neither he nor his lawyer could be reached for comment, but Warren has reportedly denied the allegations; according to an affidavit filed by federal investigators in U.S. District Court in Washington, he insists that he had consensual sex with both of the women who have accused...