Word: jordans
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...agreement commits Firestone to a range of social benefits, such as providing new and upgraded housing and building a high school, to correct conditions that have generated a torrent of negative publicity in recent years. "They are not the worst corporate citizens," says Michael Jordan, a rubber-industry expert who advised the ISLP. "But the 2008 agreement is forcing them to be a good corporate citizen. It is not being left to goodwill anymore ... and that's a significant improvement for Liberia...
...most telling, and overlooked, aspects of the brouhaha over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the particular cast of Gates' defenders. There was Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry...
...along with six others, including his twenty-something sons, Dylan and Zakariya - for allegedly plotting "violent jihad" overseas. According to the indictment, Boyd has spent the past three years stockpiling weapons in his rural home, recruiting and training would-be suicide bombers and orchestrating trips to Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Kosovo to scout potential attack sites. Some residents remain unconvinced despite the details of the 14-page indictment. "The government came and took away perfectly good people," one neighbor told the press. "And it's going to take a whole lot of evidence to convince me otherwise." If convicted, Boyd...
...Defense Secretary Gates visited Israel and Jordan over the weekend on a trip billed as an overdue stopover with allies en route to Iraq but which made news regarding Iran. In Amman on July 27, Gates said that while diplomacy is the preferred path for dealing with Iran's nuclear program, if Tehran did not respond to the Obama Administration's overtures, "We would try to get international support for a much tougher position." Other U.S. officials have said such sanctions could come as early as September. Gates also made a point of emphasizing expanded U.S. military cooperation with allies...
...Harvard Shooting--Statement of Case for Jabrai Jordan Copney...