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...spite of a deepening economic recession, College administrators maintain that the financial crisis will not derail their large-scale House renewal project—the most extensive renovation of The College’s nine river and three Quad Houses, with a $1 billion price tag. But last Tuesday, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced that construction of two new residential colleges on that campus, in addition to other construction projects, will be delayed, citing a projected 25 percent drop in Yale’s endowment by June. University President Drew G. Faust also forecasted a similarly significant endowment...
...lawyer-led "long march," scheduled in two weeks. Sharif and smaller opposition groups maintain that Chaudhry is the rightful Chief Justice and should be reinstated immediately. The ruling coalition argues that he is "too politicized" to return to office. And while the opposition says it has no wish to derail Pakistan's fledgling democracy, critics fear that street protests could tip the country into deeper chaos, or even invite military intervention. Pakistan's armed forces have always been the country's ultimate power broker, if not its true center of power. Since the fall of Musharraf, the new army chief...
...inundate their offices with phone calls and petitions as soon as the indictment is announced.Admittedly, even prominent American academics and human-rights activists are divided over the implications of the indictment. Alex de Waal, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, has argued that an indictment could derail peace negotiations and lead to reprisals against Darfur’s civilian population. But, given the failure of all previous peace negotiations and the already dire situation on the ground in Darfur, this may well be a risk worth taking...
...blow Thursday when it voted to shut down an airbase vital to supplying troops and materiel to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The action by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is yet another bruising reminder for the fledgling Obama Administration - like economic indicators or nominees' unpaid taxes - that outside events can derail the most carefully developed White House initiatives. (See photos of soldiers in Afghanistan...
Geithner's tax foibles probably won't derail his bid to replace Henry Paulson at Treasury. Republican and Democratic Senators, a number of whom have reiterated their support for Geithner in the past week, are likely to vote to confirm him as early as Thursday. Still, Hook and other tax experts say that if Geithner hopes to lower his April 15 bill in the future, he has some legitimate options - even if he lands the high-profile Treasury Secretary job. What follow are some filing tips for Geithner, as well as common tax traps he should avoid...