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...City of Cambridge received a nationally recognized award last week for its efforts to curb underage drinking. A nonprofit group known as the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) awarded its 2007 National Exemplary Award for Innovative Substance Abuse Programs to the city for a program that trains local alcohol servers and sellers to prevent underage drinking. The initiative, called “21 Proof,” is unique in “the collaboration between the licensees and the license commission,” according to Frank W. Connelly, trainer and community organizer...
...Reducing the number of shots at goal would help curb the influence of the referees. The last six weeks confirmed that too many of them think they're the most important guy on the field. It's one thing to maintain control, quite another to look for reasons to blow the pea out of the whistle in a sport that lacks flow at the best of times. A rugby revival depends on convincing the top whistleblowers that a Test match isn't the time to show off their grasp of every obscure law in the book. You don't halt...
...garnered the support of Washington and London. Rizvi said that Musharraf’s emphasis on the military has led to an imbalance of power that will be challenging to correct. “Her crucial test will be to restore the democratic process in a meaningful way, curb the political power of the military, and focus on social issues like education, the environment, civil society, and health care,” he said. Saba Z. Zaidi ’10, whose family lives in Karachi, the location of the attacks, said that she thinks the Pakistani government...
...Thursday, 32 tribal sheiks from the region - mostly Sunni, but including some Shiites - signed a groundbreaking accord pledging to work together to curb extremism and to shake the sectarian violence that has rent the region since the U.S. forces invaded the country in 2003. The rare gathering at Baghdad's al Rashid Hotel, in the heart of the Green Zone, was the culmination of months of delicate negotiations and a welcome breakthrough for U.S. troops who've been fighting and dying there for the past 14 months. "You know the saying: that all politics is local. Well you really...
...would require that the Iraqi Kurds distance themselves from the PKK, shut down its offices and make some attempt to crack down on their bases in the mountains. Turkey also wants Iraq to join Washington and Ankara in labeling the PKK a terrorist organization. But if Iraq fails to curb the PKK, then, as President Abdullah Gul told TIME in an interview earlier this year, "Turkey reserves the right to defend itself...