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...period because professors are not allowed to assign paper deadlines during exam period. This means that all papers must be completed before the end of reading period, rather than having this work more spread out. In light of the condensed reading period, professors should be given the flexibility to set paper deadlines during exam period—a paper due during exam period is much preferable to a premature deadline...
...less than a week when he allegedly shot the police officers in the coffee shop. He was released on bail on Nov. 23 after being held in jail since July on eight felony charges, including child rape and assault, that were originally lodged in May. Pierce County judges set bail for the two sets of charges at $150,000 and $40,000, respectively, in spite of the prosecutor's objections that they were too low. Clemmons was able to secure the funds from Jail Sucks Bail Bonds, in Chehalis, Wash...
...most telling numbers in the Administration's new five-year PEPfAR strategy is 4 million - the number of people it is targeting to have on treatment by fiscal year 2014. That's far lower than the 7 million target a coalition of researchers urged the Administration to set, and the goal represents a slowdown from the recent pace of treatment expansion. Since PEPfAR was first implemented in 2004, its affiliated programs have expanded treatment to approximately 400,000 individuals each year. The new target would lower that number to 320,000. After the stunning successes in prevention and treatment over...
...scattershot Afghan security apparatus, and refocus efforts on establishing a sustainable, non-narcotic agricultural base for the economy. He promised to begin removing troops in July of 2011, but offered no guidance about the pace of withdrawal or an end point for the war. "As President, I refuse to set goals that go beyond our responsibility, our means or our interests," he said, clearly defining none of those terms...
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel is thought to be mulling reinforcements to Germany's current deployment of 4,365, but she will wait until after an international conference on Afghanistan, set for late January in London, before announcing more resources. "The timeline is diminishing. European support will last for a year, maybe two," says Greg Austin, vice president of program development and rapid response at the EastWest Institute. "But in the long term, it is not sustainable for the U.S. and its NATO allies to bear the burden. There has to be a more hard-nosed diplomacy to mobilize neighboring countries...