Word: shedding
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...specifics are, and quite frankly I applaud that," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday. "I do expect that the President will make a decision here in the next few weeks." Mullen added that McChrystal recently told him that the "deliberations have really shed light in areas that have been very important to review to a depth and a breadth to really understand what is a very, very complex situation...
...July, at the close of a secretive search process, Minow shed her usual behind the scenes role to succeed Kagan as Dean of the Law School...
Russia wishes it were smaller. No, it isn't about to shed any territory, but President Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that Russia reduce its number of time zones from 11 to four, arguing that the extreme time difference - in which western Russia wakes for breakfast just as eastern Russia climbs into bed - "divides" the country and "makes it harder to manage it effectively." Can Russia just change time zones like that? How are time zones determined anyway? (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...their lines, moving only occasionally to engage the other characters. The stage is similarly uneventful. The intimate Horner Room is barely altered; a throne and the room’s balcony are the totality of the set. The production therefore relies totally on its actresses’ ability to shed new light on their characters...
...This week's fallout, however, would have been worse had Rajaratnam been arrested four years ago, when he was a more dominant force in the market. In 2005, when he made a move to shed some of his holdings, it too was met with the repetition of accusations that he was working on behalf of the Tigers. Just before Sri Lanka went to polls to elect a new President that November, Rajaratnam began selling shares. The move led to speculation that he had prior knowledge of a vote boycott forced by the Tigers in areas under the latter's control...