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...country's role in Afghanistan is concerned, Merkel is helped by the fact that in three consecutive coalition governments, prominent members of all parties except one have supported the military effort, including former heavyweights like her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder. Also, citizens who are normally lukewarm about employing soldiers abroad get increasingly frustrated with human rights - women's in particular - being trampled on by the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. She may do it at a snail's pace occasionally, but Angela Merkel takes things one step at a time. Werner Radtke, PADERBORN, GERMANY...
...forthcoming Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies to illegally obtain more than 2,000 U.S. telephone records, according to the Washington Post. FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni called the bureau's methods, which included issuing approvals after the fact and persuading phone companies to release records, "good-hearted but not well thought...
...previous version of this post stated incorrectly that the artist Sean Combs is formally known as Puff Daddy. In fact, he was formerly known as Puff Daddy and now goes by Diddy or P. Diddy...
...wedding. There she meets the groom's best friend Nick (Josh Duhamel). In rom-com terms there's something wrong with him - in that there's "nothing" wrong with him. He doesn't hate her from the start; he's not mismatched with Beth in class or temperament. In fact, he's an even more fabulous specimen than she is: tall, handsome, genial, with sensational teeth and a good job as an ESPN reporter. And he instantly loves her. It is the movie's task to erect obstacles that will keep them apart until the last reel. (See this weekend...
...grade deflation policy—which has long served as a mark of unique academic intensity among Princetonians, not to mention a chief source of that smugness we all know and love—isn’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. In fact, it seems like it’s taken Princeton students six years to realize that their special grading policy translates into lower GPAs. Who would have thought...