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...region due to border disputes and ethnic tension between the two states. "We are introducing a NATO response force to help quell the instability and return the situation to an internationally acceptable component," says U.S. Army Col. Matt Dawson, blue team commander and a strategic planner at Fort McPherson, Georgia. "There are some Uzbek nationals of Turkmen descent and Turkmen nationals of Uzbek descent and there have been atrocities that are exacerbating the situation...
...fair president takes to the pages of The New Republic this week to review a new book by James M. McPherson, the "dean of Civil War historians," she says. (A reassuring description. If she is going to take her hand off the the University's helm to pick up a pen, at least we know she can't do it without thinking about deans...
...same time you want to take his characters by the shoulders and shake them and say, “Wake up!” THC: Is there anything that someone said to you about writing that really stuck with you all these years?MR: [James Allen McPherson, who teaches at the University of Iowa,] was the first person who really pushed me to think about not just how you write, or the elements of creative writing, but also why you do it. What are you trying to accomplish by writing whatever is possessing you at the time? I guess...
...Indeed, pressure to keep up with the Ivies in this respect could end up being detrimental to less affluent schools. Michael McPherson, an economist and former president of Minnesota's Macalester College, warns that some may choose to increase class size or skip prestigious faculty hires in order to offer more generous aid packages. In the end, "they risk sacrificing quality to mimic the big boys," he says...
...Despite the inflated rhetoric, Foote said, the article captured something real about the reconstruction efforts. The team of about 15 American economists under the direction of former Michigan State University president M. Peter McPherson, had been given what Foote and his colleagues would later describe in a published paper as “sweeping powers” to shape the structure of Iraq’s economy...