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...School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, on the other hand, laid out specific plans last year to bolster its faculty—an initiative that will be implemented under the newly appointed dean Cherry A. Murray...
...army revealed in a briefing on Oct. 12, the Taliban threat has now spread well beyond its northwestern borderlands and grown tentacles that reach deep into the country's heartlands. Five of the 10 attackers who laid siege to Pakistan's equivalent of the Pentagon in Rawalpindi came from Punjab, Pakistan's largest and wealthiest province. It is also home to the bulk of the army. The Punjabi militants involved in the audacious assault were linked to groups that once enjoyed the military's patronage, and until five years ago, the ringleader had been among its very own ranks...
...this year it added Russian and Arabic. The official China Daily newspaper began publishing a U.S. edition, and the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid run by the People's Daily, launched an English-language version. In January, Liu Yunshan, the head of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, laid out the global media strategy in Qiu Shi, a CCP magazine. "It has become an urgent strategic task for us to make our communication capability match our international status," he wrote. "Nowadays, nations which have more advanced skills and better capability in communications will be more influential in the world...
...down in a cold Hollis room, slap happy and looking rather disheveled from staying up all night when the letter finally arrived. We tore open the envelope to learn that we were Matherites. Now, naïve freshman that I was, I hadn’t so much as laid eyes upon Mather House until the previous night’s housing revelry and didn’t have much of an opinion about it. I happily rummaged through my goodie bag to find my “Singles for Life!” condoms and decided that...
...three options that McChrystal has offered the President, I'm told; the low option was 10,000 troops, and the middle one was 25,000. When Presidents are offered a menu like that, we know what they usually pick. I'd be willing to bet that the plan Gelb laid out is close to what the Administration will decide to do in the next few weeks - two brigades, or 10,000 troops, will probably be sent to secure Kandahar city and environs, and two other brigades will be sent to train and advise the Afghan security forces. (See pictures from...