Word: informative
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...that ended Sudan's 21-year civil war. According to the CPA, neither North nor South Sudan is allowed to rearm in the period before a 2011 referendum is held on South Sudanese independence - unless they have express permission from a Joint Defense Board, which is then obligated to inform the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan. A spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Sudan tells TIME that the mission has received no such information about the tanks...
...stood outside Flo's apartment building in Miami for about 30 minutes while we gathered six members of the posse. Then we waited an hour for them to make calls to inform even more members of the posse about where to meet our part of the posse and to communicate the details of all this to Flo. Logistics, I would discover over the next 10 hours of endless greeting-and-leaving discussions, are the worst part of entourage life: it's like constantly trying to leave and arrive at a Jewish wedding...
...Shouting is a good way to foment conflict, but it's not the best way to inform." - explaining, in 1999, why she preferred PBS's understated news delivery to that of pundit-heavy network television...
Parents criticized the Cambridge public schools’ controlled choice system, a placement program that attempts to increase diversity based on socioeconomic status rather than race, in a hearing last night. At the meeting, held by the school community relations subcommittee, parents pleaded for more access to information and a more humanized approach. Controlled choice allows parents to submit a ranked list of preferred elementary schools but ultimately uses an algorithm that assigns students to fulfill set demographic ratios. Cambridge parent Raymond Traieth, who said he believes controlled choice has failed, said the “cold cynicism?...
...contemporary writer has done more to inform Western perceptions of Islam than Bernard Lewis. His seminal 1950 work, The Arabs in History, still holds up as one of the definitive accounts of the Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in the Islamic world. Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being...