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...bulk of the meeting was dominated by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk, who presented the findings of the “Report Card Taskforce.” Fowler-Finn had commissioned the taskforce to reduce the number of report card formats used in the system. Currently, the Cambridge schools employ 64 different formats in 13 schools...
...kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, which came a little more than two weeks after Palestinian militants from Hamas seized an Israeli corporal and smuggled him into the Gaza Strip, has produced the worst Arab-Israeli cross-border conflict since Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The great bulk of the pain last week was felt in Lebanon, as Israel bombarded the country, including sites in Beirut, killing more than 100 Lebanese by Saturday evening, almost all civilians. Hizballah, an Islamist Shi'ite group that operates freely in southern Lebanon, killed eight Israeli soldiers in its initial raid July...
...clear what anyone can do about it without trying something entirely different. If Kim Jong Il intended to put the pressure back on Washington with his Fourth of July fireworks display, he surely succeeded. [The following descriptive text appears within A diagram] A Growing Threat The bulk of North Korea s arsenal consists of hundreds of short-range missiles that threaten South Korea and Japan. Kim Jong Il is believed to have enough plutonium for six to eight nuclear weapons, but the recent failures show he still lacks a rocket capable of reaching the U.S. for now Worst case Experts...
...Defense (DOD), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) late last week. The subpoenas requested material relating to a total of 47 grants. Yale, like other major universities including Harvard, relies heavily on federal funding for scientific studies and receives the bulk of its federal grants from the DOD, HHS, and NSF. The purview of the subpoenas, which Yale officials described as “administrative” rather than criminal, extends to documents as much as ten years old. Such subpoenas need not be part of a grand jury investigation...
...Iraq element grabs much of the media attention, it accounts for no more than about 10% of the insurgency.) U.S. interests both in stabilizing Iraq and in limiting Iranian influence there depend on drawing the majority of the Sunni community into a new national consensus. But unless the bulk of the insurgents who are mounting most of the daily attacks on Coalition forces are offered a path back into Iraq's political life on terms supported by their community, there's little chance of the new government succeeding where its predecessors have failed. The move to indemnify and recognize...