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When Gates, who took over the Pentagon from Donald Rumsfeld in 2006, accepted Obama's request to stay on and work for the new Administration, many people assumed he wouldn't last long - and that even if he stayed, his clout would shrink in a White House suddenly populated by left-leaning staffers suspicious of anyone associated with George W. Bush foreign policy. And yet Gates has achieved "two victories in one year," in the words of an in-house fan. In December he won passage of a watershed Pentagon budget that shifted spending from theoretical, conventional wars...
...case against him to put Islam on trial, vociferously defending his right to free speech. He suffered a setback on Wednesday, however, when the Amsterdam District Court rejected his demand that the Supreme Court hear the case because he's a member of parliament and then denied his request for 18 witnesses to testify on his behalf - including Bouyeri, who is serving a life sentence for van Gogh's murder. (After he killed the filmmaker, Bouyeri used a knife to stick a note to the body, threatening Wilders and other politicians for criticizing Islam.) Wilders said in making his request...
Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel did not respond to The Crimson’s request for comment regarding why Yale did not see an increase in applications this year, but told the Yale Daily News that these numbers “could just be random...
...energetically came out of the gates and controlled the tempo of the game’s first ten minutes. To start the second, the Eagles swooped again, scoring less than 20 seconds into the period. The inspired play may have had something to do with a pre-game request by Boston College coach Jerry York
...calling the Harvard Athletic Department Ticket Office. We are aware of the situation with online registration for Harvard undergrads for basketball tickets. We’re working to rectify that situation with our IT department. Please, when you log in, please go ahead and make the submission request for the ticket even if the name that appears on the site is different than yours. You will receive instructions over the next day or two as to what to do next. Thank...