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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to know if countries will meet these goals. Yesterday, European NATO ministers met in Brussels to discuss the surge and whether they can be counted on to add to the 42,000 NATO troops already in Afghanistan. Rome is reportedly ready to commit 1,000 more troops in addition to the 2,750 that already there, the largest increase pledged since Obama announced the surge. Gordon Brown pledged another 500 to bring the British tally up to 9,500, the biggest commitment after America’s. Warsaw will increase its contingent from...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Across the Pond | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...think that we play our best when we communicate and work as a team, and the last couple of games we’ve been going out hard and playing as a unit,” freshman forward Jillian Dempsey said...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 2 Minnesota To Test Crimson at Home | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Harvard has been practicing hard over the past week, analyzing Minnesota’s game play and trying to reinforce the teamwork and strategy that has helped it perform well in its past few matchups...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 2 Minnesota To Test Crimson at Home | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Like a family that has finally hit the lottery after years of hard living, the Department of Education is dropping money all over the place. Following two decades of relative poverty, its latest stimulus-supplemented gambit is to devote billions to try to fix the nation's very worst schools. After having directed almost $50 billion toward saving teacher jobs and $4 billion toward its Race to the Top program, in which states vie for reform-oriented funding, the department just made available applications for districts to compete for $3.5 billion earmarked for turning around failing schools. As part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Out America's Worst Schools: A $3.5 Billion Plan | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Ruhab Zehra Zaidi, the 13-year-old sister of Sarim Zaidi, says she's very scared at the Islamabad Model College for Girls and finds it hard to study her favorite subject, math. "Anything can happen at any time," she says, her big eyes widening further. "This disturbs my studies very much." "I am upset about all this terrorism," says Hamza Baig with intensity. The teenager from the Overseas boys college wants to make sure his words are clear: "We feel very scared when going to school, thinking today may be our last." Like many students, Baig stayed home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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