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...DETAINEES PROVIDED? The military's official position is that some inmates continue to provide valuable information, ranging from how al-Qaeda raises funds and recruits members to how it plans attacks and builds explosives. Detainees, officials say, have helped identify new prisoners, from Osama bin Laden's bodyguards to rank-and-file militia fighters; late last year, according to officials, a few detainees helped uncover a previously unknown al-Qaeda cell in another country. Still, earlier this year the civilian head of intelligence at Guantánamo admitted in newspaper interviews that the majority of detainees were no longer of much...
...Rank of Hong Kong in a new survey measuring the entrepreneurial spirit of 35 world economies by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 10 Rank of Shenzhen, the mainland Chinese city across the border from Hong Kong...
Mendelsohn said that the curricular review, the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, and Allston development will rank among the council’s highest priorities next year...
Even if the Republicans prevail, it remains to be seen whether there is any prize to be had. The issue inflames the activists on each side, from evangelical ministers on the right to a group calling itself the Hip Hop Coalition on the left. But it does not rank in the concerns of most people, and it comes at a time when Americans are already holding Congress in low regard. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week showed public approval of Congress at 33%, which is the lowest since 1994, the year voters got angry enough to topple the Democratic...
When it comes to wielding a pair of scissors?as tailors or barbers?Italians rank among the world's finest. And there's no more elegant setting for a haircut than Genoa's Barbieria Giacalone, a tiny, three-chair gem squeezed into the city's oldest quarter near St. Lorenzo cathedral. Its eponymous founder, Archimede Giacalone, established his 10-sq-m premises in 1882 to serve sailors traveling through the city's busy port...