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...School principals are running classrooms in fields and abandoned school buses and shipping containers, sometimes risking their lives to serve students who want to become doctors and civil engineers,” Faust said in her speech...
...Tsinghua University, she gets the sort of question no Harvard male president was ever asked: ‘How do you combine family and career?’” Dominguez recounts. “She gave a very thoughtful answer, began with a laugh, and said, ‘My private life has vanished. I’m living in a fishbowl...
...Most of the time, the coordinators of these flights are fly-by-night companies set up to ship goods in violation of U.N. weapons sanctions or embargoes, says Hugh Griffiths, an expert on illegal arms trafficking at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Analysts have said the weapons on board the flight from Pyongyang were probably meant for terrorist groups or rebels in the Middle East or Africa, the usual clients for these types of portable but high-impact arms. But authorities have thus far been unable to establish who arranged the shipment - the paper trails are too winding...
...Repeated efforts to contact Damnjanovic, believed to be living in the United Arab Emirates, were unsuccessful. In a 2007 interview with the New York Times, he denied any involvement in illegal dealings and defended his involvement in arms shipments to places like Rwanda, calling his business "completely official." He said, "What somebody else does with the weapons when they get there is up to them...
...statement to TIME, Heather Browne, KBR's head of communications, said the company had no knowledge that the allegations in the UNDP report were true. "KBR is committed to providing high-quality service to our customer, the U.S. military, and conducting our business with ethics and integrity. The company in no way condones or tolerates anything to the contrary," the statement read. Rob Doolittle, a spokesman for General Dynamics, declined to comment on the report...