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...addition to updating and expanding student facilities, the project aims to create a center for the HLS community, add faculty offices and enhance the northwest corner of the University campus, where the Law School has two buildings. Kagan said the primary purpose of the project, however, is to make the HLS campus more accommodating for students...
...much of the past month a fight has been raging in news reports and over the Internet about the behavior of 14 male Middle Eastern passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles. Were the men terrorists casing the plane for a possible attack, as freelance journalist Annie Jacobsen suspected in a long article about the incident? Or were they, as the men said and federal investigators later concluded, a Syrian band on their...
...WITHDRAWN. MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (Doctors Without Borders), medical-aid group; from Afghanistan, after 24 years of work in the country, citing the Afghan government's refusal to investigate the shooting deaths of five aid workers in northwest Badghis province in June. A written statement issued in Kabul also blamed increased safety risks and the U.S. military's "co-opting" of relief efforts. The Nobel-prizewinning organization, which sends doctors and nurses into conflict zones, has withdrawn from only two other countries in its 33-year history, Ethiopia and North Korea; this is the first time they have withdrawn for security...
Kerry's career as a politician began and almost ended in Lowell, a blue-collar city about an hour's drive northwest of Boston. Kerry moved to Lowell in 1972, three years after he returned to the U.S. from Vietnam. Back then Lowell "looked like Berlin after World War II," former mayor Robert Kennedy says. The mills were boarded up, and houses were burned out. In the overwhelmingly Italian and Irish community, people knew their neighbors and their neighbors' cousins twice removed. And nobody knew Kerry, who had parachuted into Lowell because it was part of the state's Fifth...
...diocese to Tom Wilmot in February this year: "cruise control and reading books." To these, Wilmot, 53, might add Shoo Roo, the device fitted to bush vehicles to scare away kangaroos with ultrasonic sounds. For an area stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into his Kalgoorlie posting, the goldfields bishop's vision is changing. "I find the desert quite charming," he says. "And the more...