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Meanwhile, FAS IT has included shiny new features for users to enjoy in FAS Beta during this transition period. Some of these include the removal of Webmail-based email filters (apparently works better now), better foreign language support (¡bueno!), an improved address book (better for stalking), and better support for attachments and HTML messages (make emails bigger and brighter...
Nearly twenty states have already passed legislation divesting their state pension plans of any foreign company that invests more than 20 million dollars a year in Iran (there are 19 such companies). Scores of municipalities and labor unions are beginning to follow suit. Given today’s economic climate, it is financially prudent for Harvard to divest its holdings from companies that could soon be the target of American and international sanctions...
...Allegedly received training from Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) from February 2002 to December 2003. The group, which aims to drive Indian forces out of the disputed territory of Kashmir, is considered a foreign terrorist operation by the U.S. government...
...Indian foreign policy establishment may welcome the new and much more prominent role that India is playing in Washington, but it will always look for assurances that it hasn't sacrificed its strategic independence. India's top foreign-service officers and politicians are still steeped in Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of a nonaligned India, a belief that cuts across party lines. So every step closer to the U.S.'s embrace is likely to be followed with at least a symbolic show of keeping its distance. Witness Singh's ceremonial review of a fur-hatted Russian honor guard less than...
...censure Iran's nuclear program at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Nov. 27. This was the third time India had voted for a similar resolution, and India didn't want to jeopardize its own safeguards agreement with the IAEA, but the Indian Foreign Ministry issued a statement clarifying that its vote shouldn't be read as support for new sanctions: "India firmly supports keeping the door open for dialogue and avoidance of confrontation." This isn't just diplomatic bet-hedging; it's a mirror of India's sharpening picture of itself...