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Baghdad provides no safe haven for the lawyer of Saddam Hussein. After two weeks of broken appointments and misinformation about his whereabouts, Khalil al-Dulaimi was finally reached by phone at his family home on the outskirts of Ramadi, a restive city west of Baghdad. There, he explained, he is protected by his tribe, the Dulaimis, the most powerful in the war-torn Anbar province. With two of his fellow defense attorneys found dead in the Iraqi capital in the past few weeks, al-Dulaimi has reason to be wary, and, he told TIME, the looming threat of being kidnapped...
Teachers' unions are divided over the newcomers. "All we are concerned about is getting highly qualified teachers," says Richelle Patterson, a senior associate with the Association of Federated Teachers, one of two national teachers' unions. "To date, the Filipino teachers have been highly qualified. We haven't heard any complaints." But local unions remain skeptical about bringing in teachers from abroad, even though many of the foreigners have become union members. "I think that [school officials] did not seek out American teachers," says Marrietta English, who heads the Baltimore Teachers Union. "The problem the urban teachers have is retention. Last...
Where's Ross Perot when you need him? As the year winds down, Congress is rushing to finish doling out money to federal programs. But amid all the haggling over deficit-reduction bills, some pet projects haven't exactly been put on the chopping block...
While all of Harvard’s attention was focused on the football game in New Haven, the Crimson men’s basketball team opened the season with a resounding salvo of its own on Saturday, knocking off three-time defending America East champion Vermont 65-57 at Lavietes Pavilion...
While all of Harvard’s attention was focused on the football game in New Haven, the Crimson men’s basketball team opened its season with a resounding salvo of its own on Saturday, knocking off three-time defending America East champion Vermont 65-57 at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard (1-0) handed Vermont a loss in the Catamounts’ first action since last year’s NCAA tournament, where they pulled off a stunning overtime defeat of No. 4 seed Syracuse in the first round. The win was the first season-opening victory...