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...scholarships to the Chileans whom Harvard would have admitted. The Chilean national science foundation, “CONICYT,” will implement the merit-based Chilean selection process. There is no Chilean government cap on the number of students that it could fund at Harvard; the number will depend on how many Chileans Harvard admits. The Chilean government will award fellowships based on financial- need guidelines that follow those of Harvard’s Committee on General Scholarships...
...vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which has resulted in the killing of more than half of the 20 targeted al-Qaeda leaders. Several of the principals involved in Obama's strategy review have told me that their ultimate position on troop levels will depend on whether a plausible government, newly committed to reform, emerges when the Afghanistan election process is finally completed. Either way, the increased success against al-Qaeda could mitigate the need for a full counterinsurgency strategy. "That's the central question of the internal debate," a senior Defense official told...
...results released in mid-September, incumbent Hamid Karzai won 54.6 percent of the vote, enough to win re-election. But extensive reports of fraud mean that the final results will depend upon investigations and recounts already underway...
...lose," she says. She predicts little fuss, except from "back benchers." How much of a political issue the bill will create won't be known for some time. Jennifer E. Duffy, political analyst and editor with the Cook Political Report, says any political grist for Republicans will probably depend on the level of opposition in Congress and how the issue is raised. Republicans could look for allies within the ranks of conservative Democrats to try to bring the bill to a vote in Congress - a big if. If so, the issue could become ammunition to be used against incumbent Democrats...
Life or death can depend on the blink of an eye or the fraction of an inch. A split-second difference at the intersection that night and the racing minivan driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo would have hit Stewart's sports coupe only with a glancing blow. Instead, running a red light, Gallo slammed into the Mitsubishi Eclipse at over 65 m.p.h. "right between the wheels - direct dead center," says Wilhite's father. Meanwhile, a slight quarter-inch movement of Wilhite's vulnerable spinal cord during his rescue by paramedics or at the hospital and he would be paralyzed...