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...crops were flattened; more than 100,000 homes in north Queensland were left without electricity; hundreds are homeless. The federal government announced a $A100 million relief package, and former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has been put in charge of the reconstruction effort. Some 450 State Emergency Services personnel have joined 300 soldiers, many of whom participated in the Banda Aceh relief effort after the 2004 tsunami...
After roughly five hours, we were finally escorted to the baggage security check area. Soldiers searched every receipt, shoe, and toiletry in our bags. We were then individually asked to lift our shirts and remove our pants while being patted-down by security personnel. I did not even have time to feel embarrassed or violated before I was whisked away with a man named Ari from the Ministry of Defense. Ari was very interested in my family, where they came from, if I had relatives in the West Bank, why Harvard endorsed such a trip, and what I was studying...
...years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict knows the kind of ship he wants, and on key personnel moves, he?ll take his own counsel above...
...military?s weekly press briefing, Gen. Lynch reminded reporters of the progress being made. The artfully persuasive general repeatedly insisted that 75% of the Iraqi troops and police required to hold the country together were now in place. Where there were 100,000 security personnel a year ago, now 241,000 are in the field, he said. A third of last week?s operations had no Coalition thumbprint; they were conceived, planned and executed by Iraqis. Just over a third more were conducted jointly, leaving U.S. grunts to pound out less than a third on their own, a marked difference...
...expected. Now, it’s no longer the 80-degree days that are making players sweat but the fact that team rosters are starting to take shape while careers come to an end. Last Friday was the first indication of where one stands within the organization when Indians personnel were tentatively arranged into teams for the upcoming season. In minor league baseball placement is everything. The only thing worse then getting stuck on the team you played for the year before is being dropped down a level. Situations like that have recently prompted the first wave of players...