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...Lisa feels even worse about the emotional agony her daughter must go through every day. "When someone outside her immediate family compliments her on her pretty dress, she looks at the ground and clenches her fists," says Lisa. And because Abby couldn't tell her teachers that she had to go to the bathroom, she used to be very worried about having accidents at school...
...mission outside Europe and North America, seems to answer a question that Nato member governments and their taxpayers have increasingly been asking: Is there still a role for the alliance established in 1949 as a counterbalance to the Soviet bloc? Watching the International Security Assistance Force (isaf) on the ground in the north and west of Afghanistan, under Nato command, there seems no doubt that the alliance has rediscovered a sense of purpose. The isaf, mandated by the United Nations to help the Afghan government improve security, has already taken over this duty in some of the most fractious parts...
...soon became: Which of the two is ahead now, and which is likely to win in the longer term? The scorecard: CHINA, reckons Jim O'Neill, the head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. The Chinese economy is already substantially bigger than India's, and won't lose ground as both grow into world economic titans. According to his projections, China's economy will be easily the world's biggest by 2050, far ahead of the U.S., with India in third place at about half the size of its Asian rival. In the longer term, he thinks, China will...
Kirby’s tenure, which began in July 2002, has been dominated largely by the Harvard College Curricular Review. The review has been plagued by criticism that it lacks ground-breaking ideas and a strong guiding philosophy, and progress on the review stalled last year while the Faculty’s attention was occupied by debate over Summers...
...House and Senate in 1994. Even with Republicans reeling from the Jack Abramoff scandal and President Bush still down in the polls,it won?t be easy: the Democrats need to capture 15 seats to control the House and six to win the Senate, and the party has lost ground in the last two congressional elections. But if anyone can pull it off, it's probably Emanuel, head of the Democratic campaign committee, and his Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer, of New York. ?These are the two most aggressive campaign committee chairman in modern American history,? said Larry Sabato, a University...