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...President Dmitry Medvedev seemed to allude to skepticism Obama has expressed about the missile shield's effectiveness by calling on the new administration "to take constructive, reasonable stance, to show willingness to compromise on the most difficult issues." Moscow has also initiated a Europe-wide security conference to be held next year to discuss the continent's security frameworks, although there's unlikely to be any enthusiasm in Western Europe for moving beyond NATO as Russia would like. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said it was "crystal clear that the present security structure should remain intact," and that...
...event, sponsored by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the “Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series,” was held in conjunction with World AIDS Day, which was observed Monday...
...Harvard (or at any university) to form a union,” Hall wrote in an e-mail. “Of course, graduate students aren’t paid much, but that is because they lead such phenomenally easy lives. Most of them, myself included, have never held a real job, and most if not all of them are working their way towards an even more privileged and easy life as a professor...
...ardly believe th’news meself.”The two were seated at their usual table, leaning into the candle that burned weakly in the tavern’s noxious air. Reaching into the pocket of his tattered waistcoat, Ollie produced a letter and held it up between his thumb and forefinger.“’Ere’s the proof,” Ollie said. “The old maid was a tough ol’ bag, Oi should say.” He handed over the envelope, which was discolored and stained...
...affect the outcome of Israel's election in February. Polls show conservative Likud Party candidate and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a solid lead over acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak - who ordered the Hebron raid on the same day his Labor Party held its primary election - running a very distant third. But their impact on other players in the West Bank may be profound: the actions of the Hilltop Youth were condemned and strongly discouraged by the long-established settler leadership of the Yesha Council, who recognized that young settlers being seen...