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...review committee—a group of officials from peer institutions that is led by Georgetown President John J. DeGioia—spent a year examining various aspects of the University and interviewing faculty, staff, and students...
Leonard Solomon, a project manager for the Anderson Research Group, a laboratory where Wilson worked as an undergraduate, continues to stay in touch with Wilson. “She wanted to be an astronaut way back then,” he said...
...grenade launcher, although it's not clear from the video as released that such weapons are being carried. For alleged insurgents carrying weapons while a U.S. attack helicopter circles overhead, the men seem remarkably nonchalant, strolling unhurriedly along a Baghdad street. After getting command approval to attack the armed group, an initial volley from an Apache's 30mm cannon blows some of them apart. An Apache crewman says, "Ha, ha, ha - I hit 'em." Another comment: "Look at those dead bastards." When a wounded man is seen crawling for cover, an Apache crew member hopes he reaches...
...That leads to the most important reason for skepticism: financial reform is so complex and confusing, with so many moving parts, that excuses to say no will be exceedingly easy to find. Even a group of staunch like-minded reformers would have a hard time finding common ground; in fact, that's exactly what happened inside the Obama Administration, which is why the President recently proposed new add-on provisions limiting bank size and speculation. So how hard is it going to be for the less staunch to find something in the bill to reject? It's worth noting that...
...Ekjut handpicked women who were paid and trained to facilitate the discussions or gather data on community births and neonatal deaths. Facilitators were required to be mobile and speak two or more local languages - prepared, in other words, to bicycle from village to village and sit in on sessions. Group meetings are informal, and usually open with village gossip. Goats tied with rope to trees bleat in frustration; children squirm in their mothers' sari-covered laps. The facilitator begins with a story related to a local concern, perhaps about a pregnant girl with malaria. Participants work with picture cards, identifying...