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...attack an army barracks outside Sydney. The September call to Cape Town was picked up because a group of ethnic Somalis in the city were already under surveillance on suspicion of raising funds for al-Shabab, according to the intelligence officer. "If you've been waiting for a moment to declare Somalia a priority threat, what else do you need?" asks the Western soldier in Somalia. "There's no longer a serious risk that southern Somalia could become a jihadi operational deployment facility. It already...
Which of these estimable works will take the foreign-language Oscar? It's a toss-up, and there's always the chance that a dark horse will win. But for the moment, The White Ribbon and A Prophet are the Hurt Locker and Avatar of foreign-language films. And both will be remembered, at least among the cognoscenti, long after Cop Out and The Crazies hit the DVD remainder bins...
...students, faculty, alumni, and administrators are taking a moment to pause and look back on all they have accomplished...
...It’s a very collaborative and exciting moment,” says Sorensen...
...Mathews recommend making more use of the referendum. "It's easier to write a new law, an initiative, than hold a referendum on a law the legislature has passed. Today, we have voters making laws. A better system is for voters to pass judgments on laws." At the moment, though, referendums have the same 5% signature requirement that initiatives do. Paul and Mathews suggest lowering that to 1%. They also suggest revising the initiative itself, requiring sponsors to submit them to the legislature, where lawmakers would write a counterproposal. On the ballot, voters would choose between the two options...