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...gringo Fourth Fleet for help to defend your port.' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, referring to the U.S. naval group while taunting a governor and political rival; Chávez ordered his navy to seize seaports in Venezuelan states with major oil-exporting installations...
...fierce competition--all bloody and robust and healthy. Now the P-I is gone but for a skeleton crew of Web producers and opinion writers, and there won't be another paper along to replace it. With the Seattle Times also struggling, Seattle could become one of the first major cities to go newspaperless...
...Iraq Goodbye to Basra On March 31, British forces handed over command of their operational base in Basra to the U.S., a major step in the U.K.'s withdrawal from Iraq, where for six years it has been America's closest ally. Britain's 4,100 remaining troops complete their combat mission on May 31, and all but a few hundred--who will stay in an advisory capacity--are expected to depart by August. Iraq's second largest city has seen some security improvements over the past year, but elsewhere the gains are fragile--a fact highlighted by a suicide...
...seem to match up.†Senan Ebrahim ’12, another UC representative in attendance, disagreed. “Overall I felt it was pretty reflective of student opinion,†Ebrahim said. Not all of the statistics were available on the record. No major changes are in the works for the Advising Programs Office, but the office is working with the Council and is open to student ideas and advice, Rinere said. “We absolutely welcome their ideas, their creativity, their participation in everything that we do,†Rinere said...
...remains to be seen whether the buildings that were destroyed, which include a hospital and at least one school, were constructed according to the national seismic standards that were implemented after the Irpinia tragedy. The last major Italian earthquake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, struck in San Giuliano di Puglia in the southern region of Molise in 2002. A teacher and 27 children were killed in that quake after a school collapsed. In February, five people were found guilty of negligence, including the town's mayor, whose daughter was one of the victims. (See pictures of an earthquake...