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...returning to his room in Leverett and was in front of old Quincy House when he was approached from behind by the perpetrator. The robber petitioned the student for money, and the situation escalated when the student refused, according to the victim. “He stuck one hand into the front pocket of his hoodie and pulled out what appeared to be the handle of a gun,” the victim said. The victim said he did not know that it was a BB gun until later that night. The student said he then handed over...
...satellite imagery and reconnaissance aircrafts to verify claims made by various parties. For instance, the Sri Lankan government claimed that the Tamil Tigers had moved more than six heavy artillery guns into the governmentally declared safe zone to invite return fire to civilian neighborhoods. The LTTE, on the other hand, claimed that the government forces had shelled a hospital in Puthukkudyiruppu. This hit the headlines of many international media. The only way the government could prove it was false was to take images using a Beechcraft. Had there been powerful global conventions to allow the UN to use modern technology...
...Obama began his terse statement Tuesday by acknowledging that "there is no more solemn duty as President than the decision to deploy our armed forces into harm?s way." He has been personally writing letters to the families of each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, hand signing them "Barack." Such letters no doubt will become more difficult to write in the months ahead, when the casualties begin to include some of those he ordered into combat...
...admired him for walking down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day. Yet just a few weeks later we excoriated him for wearing a cardigan sweater and addressing us from the Oval Office on the energy crisis. There is this classic pendulum that swings back and forth. On the one hand, we want our presidents, if not necessarily to be of us, than certainly to be accessible to us. On the other hand, at various times in our history we also want to put them on a pedestal...
...Japanese support Aso, according to a recent poll by Nippon Television. His approval rating of 9.7% is the lowest since former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori bottomed out at 8.6% in February 2001. (Mori resigned two months later.) Despite efforts to jumpstart economic growth, including a controversial proposal to hand out $21.7 billion to the Japanese public, many think Aso hasn't done enough. "We have a once-in-a-hundred-year crisis and the policy response is not even average," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan. "The people running the show are not politicians, not independent...