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Alessandro, although a super-senior, says he is pretty set for a job in Cambridge once he graduates with a concentration in computer science at the close of this semester. Some people leave a session early, but they only do so if they have a legitimate conflict. Most stay the whole time; this is their Friday night fun. They players are not in costume. They wear what they were wearing during the day. There are many pairs of sneakers in the room, but not the athletic type. More the skater-boy type...
...will know within the first one to two months by what the President does if he is serious about taking the country out of this situation," says Hekmat Karzai, director of the Kabul-based Center for Conflict and Peace Studies and a relative of the President who says he is politically independent. Key indicators, says Karzai, will be how the President deals with corruption charges against political allies and keeps his supporters accountable; the ministers he appoints; and the governors he chooses to replace...
...Death to America" and "Death to Israel" slogans. The government blamed the U.S. and European governments for fabricating the post-election unrest in an attempt to stage a coup d'état. Now the Iranian government is finding it more and more tempting to press the hot button of conflict with the West. (See a pictorial history of the legacy of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...honor of the several university students killed during the course of the 1979 Revolution. It also resonates because it was a group of university students who stormed and took the embassy on that rainy November morning three decades ago, thus setting the stage for the ongoing U.S.-Iranian conflict and "cold...
...freeze defiance having demonstrated the limits of the Administration's ability to sway the Israeli government, Obama now faces the uncomfortable reality that this has also accelerated the decline of U.S. influence with the Arab states and mainstream Palestinian moderates. Having made resolving the Middle East's most intractable conflict a top foreign policy priority, the Administration now needs the symbolic resumption of talks simply to signal progress. The message from the White House to both sides over the past week has emphasized the urgency of doing that. Unfortunately, given the gulf between the demands and expectations of Israelis...