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...analyst Jack Granatstein suggested a range of motives might be behind Hampel's alleged activities. "We're a country of immigrants," Granatstein told TIME. "We have just about every single ethnic group here and a lot of these people are interested in the home country, and they are fertile ground for spying, for money-raising, for arms-buying." Granatstein also noted that Montreal is the center of the Canadian aerospace industry and has sophisticated information technology firms as well as a significant share of the country's pharmaceutical research and development sector, reportedly a favored target of Russian industrial espionage...
...This year, PAC doctors are deployed to six centers around Africa, and their goal is nothing less than to work themselves out of a job. "The PAC is a bridge program," says Kline. "If we have an American Pediatric AIDS Corps on the ground ten years from now, we haven't done our jobs." Nobody knows better than these doctors themselves that they are only a band-aid, a temporary solution to the more insidious problem of the weak health care system in Africa. The U.S. doctors are charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while...
...Iraq's government, it may have little to offer in the immediate crisis of sectarian escalation. Likewise Syria, whose contribution would be largely to tighten border security to prevent the trickle of foreign jihadists into the territory of its neighbor, may not be able to effect events on the ground as much it might like to think...
...statement. “It is my hope that we focus on the Bush Administration’s failed policies in Iraq and on ways to begin troop withdrawal.” On campus, the issue has allowed the Harvard College Democrats and Harvard Republican Club to find common ground. “I think we should focus on solving the issue in Iraq rather than figuring out how to get more people over there,” said Brigit M. Helgen ’08, president of the Harvard Democrats. “The proposal was defeated...
Pinned to the ground, Cardenas audibly tells the officers he can’t breath, all the while being punched repeatedly in the face by the “law-enforcement” officials. The bloodied, disfigured face of Cardenas looking squarely into the YouTuber’s camera-phone only helps to personalize the depravity. Worse still, the FBI, according to the Age, only began investigating the incident after the video was released on YouTube.com, more than a month after the bashing. The LAPD “investigation” had, until then, failed to produce any results despite...