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...tight electoral contest predicted between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and retired Army commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka failed to materialize when Sri Lanka went to the polls on Tuesday. Instead, Rajapaksa won easily - with 57.9% of the vote, by official count, 1.8 million more votes than Fonseka, who received around 40%. But Fonseka immediately rejected the result, alleging vote-rigging, prompting a tense standoff...
According to Kenan, the original policy was created when FAS was considering a different plan for Gen Ed that involved taking three courses in each of three areas—natural sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Undergraduate curriculum planners did not want students to take three similar courses in one distribution category and then fulfill nearly all of the requirements for a secondary field with the same three courses...
...Gen Ed curriculum that was eventually adopted, which requires students to choose one course in each of eight different categories, rendered this policy moot, she wrote...
...assault was also likely intended to be a signal to the U.S. that its plan to increase its troop levels this year could have violent consequences. Just days ago, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview with ABC News in which he praised the progress that an earlier troop surge has made in securing Helmand province and taking momentum away from the Taliban. U.S. military officials have noted in the past, however, that dramatic attacks will still occur in the country despite the extra troops on the ground. Monday's commando raid seemed to prove...
...officer and author of President Obama's first Afghanistan-Pakistan review: "This underscores the Afghan war is going to be long and costly. The enemy has come to know us better than we know them. Reversing that intelligence gap is imperative and hard to do." (See pictures of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan...