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...Undergraduate Council can no longer fund alcohol with its Party Grants, but that doesn’t mean the party has to stop! Fifteen Minutes is here with fifteen parties you can throw with your party grant this week, as well as the items for which you should submit receipts...
...professors on the faculty advisory committee to the presidential search last year and one of the three professors who drafted the general education legislation that the Faculty approved last spring. He also currently sits on the 18-member governing board of the FAS, the Faculty Council...
...escalation of the simmering battle among Shi'ites for control of southern Iraq. In Najaf, the spiritual center of Shi'ite Iraq, public displays of respect and cooperation mask an often violent competition between rival factions. Since shortly after the American invasion The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) - known until May 2007 as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI - has clashed, often violently, with followers of the Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. This summer Sadr announced a "freeze" in the activities of his Mahdi Army militia and the two sides have reached an uneasy...
...again the war no one wants to touch. Ethiopia is discovering, as the U.S. has in Iraq, that invasion and occupation are two different things. It is stuck fast in its own East African quagmire, reluctant to stay yet unable to withdraw. This month, in response to a Security Council request, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said sending in a U.N. peacekeeping force was "neither realistic, nor viable" and - appropriating the White House's language - suggested the formation a multinational "coalition of the willing." Ban knows full well that no one is willing. The African Union, which promised...
...Whether guilty or innocent, those detainees are then likely to be in for a months-long journey of questioning and petitions. Citing a provision of the Geneva Convention and U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. forces in Iraq claim authority to arrest individuals deemed a threat to either the government of Iraq or U.S.-led multinational troops in the country. Initially, anyone arrested by U.S. forces can be held informally for about 14 days before their case gets officially started. After that, the detainee is sent to a U.S. detention compound if military officials decide there is enough evidence of insurgent...