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...elsewhere in the region and in the Central Command area, are very much characterized by asymmetric warfare," Gates said. "And I don't know anybody in the United States military better qualified [than Petraeus] to lead that effort." Gates said he had discussed Petraeus's promotion with Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the armed services committee, and said he didn't "anticipate any problems" in winning Senate approval. Petraeus, in a brief statement from Baghdad, said he is "honored to be nominated for this position...
Following in the footsteps of universities including Harvard, Yale University will create a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Yale President Richard C. Levin announced Monday. This announcement aims to reunite the departments into a cohesive SEAS, led by Dean of Engineering T. Kyle Vanderlick, who joined Yale at the beginning of the calendar year as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. “Engineering is more than a collection of individual departments,” Vanderlick said. She compared specialization in engineering to chosing a particular field of study in medical school...
...Dean has consistently argued that the integrity of party rules is at stake. But that seemingly principled stand rests on shaky ground. In a New York Times op-ed article this week, Michigan Senator Carl Levin and Debbie Dingell, a Michigan member of the DNC, pointed out that one of the perennially pampered primary states, New Hampshire, also broke newly established party rules last year by defensively moving its own primary to an earlier date - and the DNC allowed it. Even discounting that apparent hypocrisy, Florida Democrats insist that the moves by their state and Michigan should have indicated...
...Moss says. In order to approach this world of shredded documents and locked file cabinets, the co-directors interviewed individuals whose jobs are to keep the government’s secrets. Some of the film’s subjects include Tom Blanton, Director of the National Security Archives; Mike Levin, National Security Agency retiree; and former CIA agent Melissa Mahle who worked in covert operations in the Middle East. Blanton and Levin accompanied the directors to the Sundance Film Festival, where “Secrecy” was among the less-than 2% of documentary submissions chosen for screening. Audiences...
...made cards more generally available, the voluntary changes from Chase and Citibank (which eliminated its universal default clause in 2007) show a new willingness to curb some of the more controversial practices. "They are kowtowing to political pressure," says Frank Braden, an equity analyst at Standard & Poors. Adds Levin, "They take it very seriously. I think they are very nervous...