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...Which brings us to yesterday's comments by Powell, who in a previous life was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell told CBS News' Face the Nationthat he was "not persuaded that another surge of troops into Baghdad for the purposes of suppressing this communitarian violence, this civil war, will work." Powell said he had not yet heard anything like a clear mission for a surged U.S. force. Plus, he added, "I'm not sure any of the commanders have said that yet." Powell was reminding listeners that George W. Bush has always said that he would...
Today, the Presnyakov brothers' Yekaterinburg theater no longer exists, and their hometown doesn't seem to be aware of their world fame. The brothers shrug it off. They launched their theater, they say, when many people were traumatized by misguided reforms that suddenly wrenched their lives out of joint. The theater tried to help people cope with an uncertain future. These days, however, they see different problems on the rise. "This country is getting rigidly controlled again," Oleg says. "Once the brief spell of freedom shrinks, the state accepts only its controlled appointees, rather than those who spring up spontaneously...
...Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, and Af-Am faculty members say that he is welcome to return to Cambridge in a tenured role. In September 2004, just months after Summers turned down Morgan’s tenure case, she and Bobo announced their joint departure for the West Coast, where job offers awaited them at Stanford.Morgan became the executive director of Stanford’s Hiphop Archive and an associate professor of communication. At Stanford, an associate professorship is a tenured position. Bobo assumed Stanford’s Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professorship...
...names of the presidential candidates nominated by students in the survey will never be released, according to SAG chair Matthew J. Murray, who is in his second year of a joint law and public policy degree program...
...Manmohan Singh, who arrived in Japan for a four-day visit Wednesday, will be feted with all the traditional state visit perks, including meetings with top Japanese corporate leaders and a ceremony with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. But by also according Singh the unusual honor of addressing a joint session of the Japanese parliament, the Diet, Tokyo is signaling just how seriously Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking the summit with Singh...