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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced last week that students, faculty, and staff will receive new identification cards that use contactless Smartcard technology when they return to campus this fall...
...return calls for comment yesterday...
...surprise that Obama reached out to Reed again last month, as he was beginning to plan a return trip to Iraq - this time as the presumptive Democratic nominee, running on a promise to get the troops out. Reed and another Army veteran - Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who received two Purple Hearts in Vietnam - will accompany Obama, not only to Iraq, but also to Afghanistan, where Obama has pledged to intensify the miliary effort...
...habits. And returnee Afghans, like himself, bring with them visions from exile of girls without headscarves, shopping malls as social hubs, and the rituals of fast food. Many of today's young Kabulis are as nomadic as those who traveled the silk road hundreds of years ago, as the return of thousands forced into exile by successive wars enables an uneven cosmopolitanism to take root in the city...
...contrast with the mood in Israel could hardly have been greater. The very fact that the Israeli government had to barter for the return of two soldiers captured in July 2006 by Hizballah was disappointing enough. The Israeli government had launched a 33-day war to regain its lost boys and destroy the Shi'ite militia but failed on both counts. Moreover, the fact that the two soldiers were returned in black coffins left many Israelis bitter about the price paid by their government: the release of five dangerous militants and the return of the remains of 185 others...