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...Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC), an important development office for the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat closed by Thaksin in 2002; establishing a program for the economic development of the region on par with the rest of the country; and the recognition of southern Muslims as a distinct ethnic group, with Malay an official language in the south...
...military withdrawal politically possible. American leaders are paralyzed by indecision and political insecurity, and only peace in Iraq will let them off the hook and open the way for troop withdrawal. I cannot fully understand the rivalry and enmity among the people of Iraq. But the religious and ethnic factions need to learn to live together in peace, or they will live in fear and danger perpetually. BRIAN SCHILL Spring Branch, Texas...
...years. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that it was too early to know socioeconomic details about the Class of 2011. He said, however, that next year’s incoming freshmen will be even more diverse in terms of ethnic groups and possible areas of concentration. There are many more prospective engineers and math concentrators—61 engineers compared to 41 for the early admits of the Class of 2010 and 87 potential math concentrators compared to 62 last year. According to Fitzsimmons, the rise in these numbers can mainly...
...Saudi government hasn't yet funneled large sums to the tribes, the source says, for fear of fueling sectarian conflict. Saudi Arabia strongly opposes partition and would prefer to see a strong central government able to offer security to all Iraq's sectarian and ethnic groups. But, the Saudi expert says, "if things really continue to spiral out of control, as they are currently, and there is more and more concrete evidence of Iranian involvement with the Shia militias and with the continuous ethnic cleansing that is currently happening, adding to a potential announcement of a U.S. withdrawal, it will...
...only policies, and equal opportunity for the hiring and promotion of Latino workers. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Human Resources Geoffrey Peters said that Harvard has yet to decide if the workers will keep their jobs in the long term. “Regarding claims of ethnic discrimination, we take such accusations very seriously,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We have asked the Harvard University Office of Labor Relations to investigate these claims and they are in the process of doing so as quickly and judiciously as possible...