Word: panels
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...Creating a commission is such an obvious idea, in fact, that the Pentagon has already beaten the White House to it. On February 23, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was launching a panel to examine the care at Walter Reed and any other military medical facilities it chooses to examine. Headed by two former Army secretaries, the eight-member group will have 45 days to investigate and report back on its findings. Of course, it isn't being called a commission; that turf belongs to Presidents and lawmakers. The Pentagon's board is more modestly called an "independent review...
...confronted Pyongyang in late 2002 with intelligence about this program, U.S. diplomats say Pyongyang confirmed its existence and then stormed out of the talks. Since then, the North has denied the existence of a uranium bomb program. And last week, a key intelligence official in Washington stunned a Senate panel by testifying that analysts now only had a "mid-confidence level" about the program's existence - down from the earlier "high confidence...
...intricately planned prank committed by a group of students on campus; this particular group of students were caught after slinking around the Faculty Room and setting off an alarm. Although it is unclear exactly what the students intended to accomplish, they apparently pried off a wall panel and exposed a crawl space...
...conference also featured five panel discussions ranging on topics from “What Does Lawrence v. Texas Mean for the Future of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’” to “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Military...
Last week, two notorious speakers were invited to Cambridge to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At MIT, Dovid Weiss, a leader of the tiny, rabidly anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism known as "Neturei Karta," participated in a panel sponsored by several student groups as well as by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. And at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor at DePaul University, spoke at an event sponsored by the Palestine Awareness Committee, the Society of Arab Students, and other campus groups...