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...Council prepare a response—falling right after finals when many students will have already departed for the summer. The University should work with the city to move the hearing to the fall so that the Council can present a balanced case. The University should still confront the city about its misguided decision, advocate to delay the city’s hearing and help broker a compromise so students can continue to party freely after...
...TIME.com: Could al-Qaeda's new strategy be to confront not only the U.S. presence in the region, but also more directly target Washington's Arab allies...
...overhead of a drone, the sound of a plane or the sudden explosion of a nearby tank--as a prompt to take cover. In Mahmudiyah, for instance, the commander of a 150-man Republican Guard unit ordered his troops to leave their tanks in the market and prepare to confront U.S. forces on foot. "The commander--he'd be dead if he'd stayed in those tanks," says Hadi Abid, 47, a worker who watched the scene unfold from a nearby hill...
...plaintive wail of a child begging for one more toy, outfit or serving of fast food. In his book Prodigal Sons & Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM (Wiley), financial adviser Nathan Dungan, based in Minneapolis, Minn., offers helpful advice on ways beleaguered parents can respond. Confront the issue head on, he says. "Consumer-product companies are playing for keeps in shaping the financial habits of these young people." TIME recently spoke with Dungan...
...Still, there were many challenges I couldn't confront until I went to the mountain, such as the Khumbu Icefall: 609 meters of jumbled-up ice boulders?some the size of baseballs, others as big as buildings?constantly collapsing and exploding as the ice expanded and contracted. As I weaved through the labyrinth, I could hear huge ice columns groaning and cracking overhead. My first trip took a miserable 13 hours through a frozen maze, a blind person's worst nightmare. No two steps were alike as I zigzagged over thin snow bridges and leapt over deep cracks onto shifting...