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...deal with these clean-break settlements is people know where they stand after they're done," says Julian Lipson, head of the family law team at London law firm Withers. Exceptions might be made if one party lies about their assets, or if "in very short succession after the order has been made, a completely unforeseeable change renders the basis of the agreement wrong," Lipson says. Otherwise, "a final order is a final order. And that's that...
...steps he hoped the Afghan government could implement with U.S. support, including more troops, fighting narcotics growth, and starting negotiations with the Taliban, the terrorist organization that ran Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion. Jawad also said Afghanistan needed better trained and equipped armed forces to maintain domestic order, though he expressed concerns that funding for military training could end up aiding warlords and narco-traffickers if not carefully targeted. Negotiating with the Taliban, a group that continues to engage in terrorist activities, was another key plank of Jawad’s platform. Jawad said the government could successfully fight...
...array of violent and terrifying stories are not devoid of meaning. Groebner weaves them together through the notion of “Ungestalt,” the “reflection of violence that the narrator locates beyond his ‘own,’ ordered, regulated realm in a savage ‘outside.’” The idea that violence must be found in an exotic “other” permeates the themes of the book, with otherness taking the shape of sexuality, religion and the polity in the Middle Ages. Ungestalt...
...programs. Brandt said, however, that GSAS administrators have made modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year. “This is an exercise that Dean Smith is asking all administrative units in FAS to participate in,” Brandt said. “The character of this economic crisis...
...president has had,” he said. “As advisers or heads of agencies, no president has drawn such talent into his apparatus.” McCarthy was not alone in his acclaim for Obama’s Monday announcement, which consisted of an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It also included a memorandum that authorized John P. Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington and a Harvard professor of environmental policy, to issue recommendations on ensuring scientific integrity in governance. Several Harvard...