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Bruder's rather lofty goal is to replicate Alshaikh's experience across the region by expanding the program into a dozen countries, training and placing up to 50,000 young people in jobs in five years' time. But what he really wants is for the idea to replicate itself. "Nothing would make me happier than governments banding together to make job creation in the region a priority," he says. And perhaps nothing else can make the region a more secure place...
...artifact of that peacetime boom between the falls of the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers. Then, at least, we had the luxury of wondering whether we didn't have bigger things to worry about. Today we know we do. And we watch--and cover--O.J. anyway, a dozen years older, not necessarily wiser...
...other fresh feature—a blog for council business—is not altogether novel. A similar feature was added to the site in May 2006 only to fall quickly into disrepair. “I don’t know whether more than half a dozen people ever visited that blog in its whole existence,” said UC Representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who was a contributor to the 2006 blog. Greenfield added that while “there’s actually a lot of people subscribed to [the] UC-general...
Antoine Ghanem, an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker, was killed Wednesday when a suspected car bomb exploded beside his Chevrolet in a leafy suburb of east Beirut, setting the vehicle ablaze along with at least a dozen others and killing some nine bystanders. His death will complicate the scheduled election of a new President next Tuesday and further polarize the warring anti-Syrian and pro-Syrian factions here whose bitter feuding has stalemated the country for almost a year...
...request for U.N. admission by Taiwan is largely symbolic. As a member of the Security Council, China can veto any application, and Taiwan has tried - and failed - to regain membership more than a dozen times since being expelled in 1971, when the U.N. granted China's seat to Beijing. American censure, therefore, comes mostly out of a desire to avoid upsetting what has always been a tenuous peace between the mainland and Taiwan. In July, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang warned the proposed vote could "have a grave impact on cross-Straits relations and seriously endanger peace and stability...