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...June 17, one of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Berlusconi's Rome residence last fall and that she stayed the night of Nov. 4. She says she secretly made audio recordings during the parties, which she turned over to prosecutors. Two days later, a friend of D'Addario's, Barbara Montereale, told newspaper La Repubblica that she, too, was paid to attend the Nov. 4 party, but left after dinner. Montereale described her friend as a professional escort...
...Come fall, Lowell will be home to Flehinger and his family, which includes his wife, Suzanne; a son, soon to be 11; and Jacques Derridag—a chiwawa and corgi mix named after the deceased French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He also has a 21-year-old son at Skidmore College, whom Eck says could give Flehinger additional expertise in relating to students' needs...
That said, without the military doing its bit, there will be no success to measure. So part of the Obama Administration's strategy is to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, from 57,000 now to 68,000 by the fall. The extra troops should help bring security to parts of Afghanistan that lack it, but McChrystal is clear that security alone is but a means to an end. "The point of security," he says, "is to enable governance ... My metric is not the enemy killed, not ground taken: it's how much governance we've got." Decent...
...there have been other indicators of change as well. Last fall, an Egyptian man was sentenced to three years in prison in the first known conviction on sexual-harassment charges in the nation's history. In November, the police initiated a harassment crackdown, arresting more than 500 men in a single day - although since then, action to combat the problem has been inconsistent. Women's rights groups are urging that more women take matters into their own hands and file formal complaints - a daunting task, especially as women point to police as being among their daily harassers. "There...
...suspicion fall on the Kim regime? The South Koreans immediately blamed their cousins to the north, but Seoul fingers Pyongyang for all sorts of things, and not always with much to back up its claims. But in this case, there is some circumstantial evidence to support their allegations...