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Since stepping down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) one month ago after a setback in his battle with prostate cancer, Jeremy R. Knowles’ condition has stabilized, according to his wife. He entered Massachusetts General Hospital in late April, suffering from pneumonia and sepsis. “Jeremy is no longer in critical condition, but is stable and doing well and hopes soon to be out of the Intensive Care Unit,” Knowles’s wife, Jane S. Knowles, said in a statement this week. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine?...
...Michael Baroody of the National Association of Manufacturers Wednesday withdrew his doomed nomination to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Democrats had attacked President Bush for assigning "the fox to guard the henhouse," and consumer activists had blasted Baroody as a "corporate insider." Now they're celebrating a rare setback in Bush's crusade to turn the government over to businessmen...
...major setback for the Taliban, which has been fighting to regain power, its lead military commander, Mullah Dadullah, was fatally shot in a joint operation by U.S., NATO and Afghan forces. He is the third top Taliban leader to be killed in the past six months...
...crises. More recently, after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister and personal friend Rafik Hariri in 2005, Chirac teamed up with Washington to co-author a U.N. push to break Syria's hold on Lebanon, and to seek justice for those behind Hariri's murder. And despite the major setback he suffered in 2004 when French voters rejected the European Union constitution he supported, Chirac's strong pro-European positions made him a vital partner for German leaders seeking to push ahead wit h EU expansion and consolidation. In stark contrast to Sarkozy and many other conservative European leaders, meanwhile...
Denouncing the latest outbreak of Palestinian infighting as "senseless" and "shocking," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal says that the Gaza warfare threatens to become a "catastrophic" setback to Arab-Israeli peace prospects...