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...NATO's member nations convene in Bucharest, Romania, to discuss the state of the alliance, Afghanistan will be at the top of the agenda. General Dan McNeil, commander of the alliance's 43,250 soldiers in Afghanistan, has lobbied for another troop surge to help battle the rising insurgency in the country's south. But lower-level commanders on the ground have something else to add to that wish list. Says one: "Frankly, defeating the Taliban is the least of our worries. They are not going to beat us. What is killing this country is corruption and drugs. That...
...leaders in the U.S. went about their business. A current (non-American) CDF official notes that the U.S. church is the only one that keeps a "serious" doctrinal office rather than an unthinking rubber stamp or an old-boys' club; when conflicts arise, its bishops are actually prepared to discuss them. Moreover, says Levada, "he seems to recognize that we're plain speakers. We don't hide behind words...
...Professor of English” and the department Web site using the title “Department of English.” English professor Helen Vendler was less than enthused about the revision, calling it a “routine change.” The Faculty also agreed to discuss a proposed lowering of the quorum—the threshold needed to pass motions—from one-sixth to one-eighth, at its meeting next Tuesday. The quorum proposal has been pending since it passed the Faculty Council nearly a month ago. When the Council decided to send...
...Public discussion of the school budget proposal for next year at the Cambridge School Committee meeting last night drew a larger crowd and more comments, with residents, organization members, and a member of the city council in attendance. Though the budget had already been introduced at a meeting last month, the revised proposal presented by Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn received criticism from more quarters. Cambridge City Councilor Craig A. Kelley said that the budget proposal does not tell enough holistically about Cambridge public schools. “There’s a lot of information in this budget...
...militia of unsavory - and unpopular - criminal elements. But then the coalition began to round up more and more legitimate Sadr lieutenants, perhaps precipitating some of last week's confrontation in Baghdad. One of Sadr's principal demands when he met with the delegation of Shi'ite political leaders to discuss the new cease-fire was that more of his forces be released under the amnesty law. This was to appease his disgruntled followers whose brothers and uncles are the ones behind bars and who feel they have taken an unfair brunt of the surge while former Sunni insurgents are getting...