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...Chaman, men roam the streets wearing the distinctive black or white robes and black or white turbans characteristic of the Taliban. "We feel relaxed and safe here," says a young Talib. A local cleric says Taliban commanders meet regularly in the town to plan raids into their former domain. Foot soldiers "operate in twos and threes," says a trader who works on both sides of the border. "They sneak across, carry out attacks and come back...
Officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) also threatened to take the land from Harvard by eminent domain if the yard—long eyed as a site for commuter-rail storage—was not given adequate protections by the University...
...ensure that is the case, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) along with the U.S. and the European Union are pressing Iran's leaders to sign an additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that would allow tougher IAEA inspections. There's no solid evidence in the public domain to indicate that Iran is chasing the Bomb?and in the aftermath of the debacle over Iraq's still-undiscovered weapons of mass destruction, it's impossible to conclude that the U.S. intelligence community has an abundance of secret knowledge of the Iran-North Korea partnership or that U.S. government officials...
Damrosch cited medievalist James Simpson, a senior faculty member at Cambridge University until his recruitment by Harvard’s English department this spring, as another such eminent hire. But while Simpson is highly respected within his field, students and the wider public outside his specialized academic domain are unlikely to have heard of his work...
...challenges are great, both financial and political, but there is a far higher degree of respect and cooperation between art historians in the various spheres of our domain than in the U.S.,” he says...