Word: outreaching
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...rehashed an all–too-familiar—and all-too-important—issue: funding for student groups. The UC, in a bold move, ignored the recommendation of its Finance Committee (FiCom) and awarded $2,000 to the Mission Hill After School Program, a tutoring and mentoring outreach group affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). The extended debate highlighted the need for clear, consistent, and well-publicized standards for funding of student groups...
...tinderbox region around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the centuries-old code of Pashtunwali is supposed to protect peaceful visitors from harm. So when a four-man Canadian military-outreach team accompanied by Afghan army troops arrived March 4 in the village of Shinkay, 70 km north of Kandahar, to discuss construction projects with local elders, the soldiers felt comfortable removing their helmets. It was a near fatal mistake. They had barely settled down for a chat when a young man, shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great"), leapt to his feet and struck Canadian Forces Reserve Lieut. Trevor Greene...
...parties settle other disputed issues, the U.S. may be able to pull out some troops this year. "If we get--when we get--the national-unity government, when we have ministries that are run by competent ministers, and as we get into the next phase of our Sunni outreach ... I see a set of circumstances, frankly, that would allow for a significant withdrawal of our forces...
...There are things that other people get to before us. We avoid that a lot by working well with the universities. We have way bigger university outreach program than any company and that?s worldwide, universities in Europe, India, China. The U.S. universities are where we get the most out of that, but we want to make sure we're doing it everywhere. There are famous cases. Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the Ipod. We're a company that's brave enough to say that we will keep those categories...
...major Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. But Khalilzad told TIME he remains optimistic: "I believe that if we get - when we get - the national-unity government, when we have ministries that are run by competent ministers, and as we get into the next phase of our Sunni outreach ... I see a set of circumstances, frankly, that would allow for a significant withdrawal of our forces...