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...Mercury Group—a consulting company for high technology businesses—he moved into the space two years after the building was constructed. With Harvard now expanding the size of its development office, which already occupies part of the building, Ittelson fears that the University will not renew its lease next April, and will effectively evict about 50 businesses that currently occupy space on the building’s second floor. “I believe that rather than renewing the lease on the second floor, they’ve decided not to renew...
Lesson Three: A good time for the insurgents to renew their bloody acts in Baghdad would be mid-August, when Petraeus and other American commanders will come to the end of what he called a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" following the departure of the last surge troops in July. Hardcore jihadists like the fighters of al-Qaeda in Iraq want American forces to stay, not go. They enjoy the opportunity to confront them with guerrilla warfare and care little about what that does to Iraq. They want the fight to go on. Al-Qaeda in Iraq...
...days will have passed since the proposal of the tax revisions, the Lower House can approve the bill with a two-thirds majority. The DPJ says that if the LDP does this, then they could slap a formal reprimand against Fukuda. And last November, when the bill to renew Japan's anti-terrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean became a point of contention, the DPJ also suggested a reprimand and opposition party leader Ichiro Ozawa left for a trip to China with his senior advisors in a spectacular display of disapproval. Nevertheless, the bill ended up passing three months...
...last May, after the government refused to renew the license of an anti-Chávez broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands of student protesters into the streets, their hands painted white to symbolize nonviolence. That traditional method of expressing discontent was combined with decidedly 21st century ones, as the activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than...
...decision to increase France's Afghanistan contingent of 1,600 soldiers. The move - if it is indeed made at next month's NATO conference - would come in the wake of vigorous U.S. demands that its allies make a greater contribution to the Afghan effort. It could also possibly renew complaints in France that Sarkozy has tailored French foreign policy to please American politicians...