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...government military spending this year by nearly 26% to about $37 billion, and given military producers of strategic weapons like missile systems and aircraft an extra $1.9 billion in 2009. In late March, just days before flying to the G-20 summit in London, the President donned a military pilot's helmet and uniform at an air base near Moscow for a ride in the back of a Sukhoi-34 fighter bomber, one of Russia's most sophisticated and deadly pieces of hardware. Afterwards he told reporters that it was time to modernize the country's entire air-force fleet...
...that end, Robert Oakley, Clinton's special envoy, met with five of Aidid's aides, though not the warlord himself. Afterward Oakley told reporters that Aidid wanted to be President of Somalia someday and . . . well . . . who knows? The buttering-up had one quick result: Aidid's fighters released helicopter pilot Michael Durant, whose terrified face on television had turned many Americans against the whole involvement, and Nigerian soldier Umar Shantali. Durant, suffering from broken bones in the back, leg, arm and face, was flown to an American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably...
Everybody has Apple envy - even Larry Ellison. The dashing playboy founded Oracle Corp., whose relational database software makes it the 137th largest company in the world. Ellison, who likes to pilot old fighter jets and lives in a faux Japanese-style mansion, is one of the richest men in the world and another of the great, big personalities of Silicon Valley. Just like his old buddy, Steven P. Jobs. So it was at once surprising - and not - when the news broke this morning that Oracle intends to purchase Sun Microsystems, for around $7.4 billion...
...based,” Ward said.In March, City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker proposed granting Harvard a “mini-stimulus package” that would relieve the university of a portion of its Payment in Lieu of Taxes—also known as a PILOT payment—equal to the total annual salaries of subcontracted janitorial employees who had recently been laid off. The measure, intended to shame Harvard into backing off from layoffs, has since been tabled.Last week, Ward co-sponsored another resolution, calling on Harvard and MIT to request “concessions from employees...
...about the new program’s mandate that its fellows facilitate meaningful interaction within the House community through lectures, discussion dinners, and integration into the larger network of House advising through liaisons with graduate students. Per the committee’s recommendations, we hope to see the College pilot the House fellows program in one or two Houses and, if successful, require all 12 Houses to participate...