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Harvard College Library (HCL) administrators are staying mum about the results of an Aug. 7 meeting between HCL and several other libraries who have had maps stolen from their collections by map thief E. Forbes Smiley III.Federal authorities were also present at the meeting at Yale University, which was held to determine ownership of the 97 maps that Smiley has admitted to stealing over a seven-year period.HCL Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard said that the meeting was positive and productive, but that the libraries agreed not to comment on the meeting’s proceedings. Harvard will...
...operatives in Pakistan and an as-yet undetermined relationship with al-Qaeda - appears to have tried again. And though the plot was foiled apparently thanks to good police work and intelligence-gathering, it nonetheless reignited fears that Osama Bin Laden's brand of mass terror is an ever present threat...
...would like to see the Democrats united here in Connecticut,” Lamont told CNN. “I want us to present a bold and clear and constructive alternative to the Bush agenda...
While al-Maliki at least tries to present himself as a unifying figure, railing against Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias, many of his partners in the government are blatantly sectarian. Political leaders express outrage over the atrocities committed against their own sect but won't acknowledge that the other side, too, is bleeding. They often dismiss those wounds as self-inflicted. After the bombing of the Samarra shrine, many Sunni leaders told me the blast was the work of Shi'ite agents provocateurs working in concert with Iranian intelligence operatives. Likewise, Mahdi Army commanders routinely accuse Sunni insurgents...
...Instead, government officials say, the only way that the Lebanese Army would deploy to the south would be as part of a political framework agreed to by Hizballah. On present indications, that would require a cease-fire agreement that included a prisoner exchange and settling of border disputes. The Lebanese Army could then work with an international force to ensure that Hizballah abided by the cease-fire, and that no new militias move into southern Lebanon as the PLO did in the 1970s and 1980s. "You can't just throw a force down into southern Lebanon and have it create...