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Under a $5 million contract negotiated last year by the U.S. command's Information Operations Task Force, the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based p.r. firm, translated upbeat stories written by military information officers and then paid Iraqi newspapers to print them or hired Iraqi journalists to sell them as their own stories. U.S. officers in Baghdad insisted last week they were only trying to get the truth out by buying editorial space, a customary practice in Iraq that prompted Hughes to launch programs there to train journalists to be more independent. Says a Defense Department official: "This certainly undercuts what...
...wish to transfer to Harvard permanently and those who support that proposal should realize that it is unfair to the hurricane-affected schools who explicitly expressed in conjunction with Harvard that students would be required to return once the fall semester ended. They should understand that dishonoring that contract would set a negative precedent for any future such actions in response to hurricane-affected or disaster-affected areas. The visiting students were given the opportunity to apply under the Visiting Undergraduate Study Program, which explicitly states that students enrolled under the program may not apply to Harvard as transfer students...
WHAT IF THE AUTHOR DISAGREES WITH YOUR INTERPRETATION? Even if it's not in their contract, the authors have the final...
...sheer bloody-mindedness, Estens is traveling around the state in his six-seat Cessna on a new assignment: lifting his troops for the next phase of expansion, and marketing the organization to corporate leaders. Although the federal government has given the AES funding for the next four years, the contract allocates too much money for training and not enough to cover the new management structure of a larger agency. Estens also expects AES managers to be creative and productive in earning revenue - through job placements, traineeships, security work and sponsorships. But they won't be offering prospective employers the carrot...
...virginity pledges" to abstain from sex until marriage. A report in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that compared with other teens, those who made the pledge are more likely to experiment with oral and anal sex, are less likely to use condoms and are just as likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases. As a group, however, pledgers do tend to wait longer to lose their "technical" virginity...