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...Gen Ed classes being taught this semester fit in this category...
Some professors teaching newly-designated Gen Ed classes expressed surprise at their high course enrollment...
...Other Frisco. In case you get stuck on an overnight layover at Dallas International, Starwood's lifestyle brand, Aloft, the hotel geared toward the Gen Y traveler, opened an outpost near Dallas in Frisco, Texas, just 25 minutes from the Dallas International Airport and Love Field Airport. 3202 Parkwood Blvd., Frisco...
...cooperativeness of the nation's military, which has a long history of interrupting democracy in the country, has been a pleasant surprise. Just half a year ago, the international community and Dhaka's civil society looked at the armed forces, including army chief Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed, with a degree of apprehension. During emergency rule, dissidents were arrested, journalists muzzled and political assembly was banned. A wing of the military intelligence was accused by prominent human rights groups of torturing activists. Moeen himself made troubling statements about the efficacy of democratic rule in a country as turbulent as Bangladesh...
After his December 7th nomination as President-elect Barack Obama's Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki became living proof that one President's trash can be another President's treasure. The decorated veteran is most remembered for his controversial role as Army Chief of Staff in the Bush Administration. His testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the need for several hundred thousand troops in Iraq was challenged and dismissed as "wildly off the mark" by the Department of Defense. Spoiler alert: Shinseki ended up being right, but his public dissent...