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Paul Barreira, the director of behavioral health and academic counseling at Harvard University Health Services, said he had sought out Putnam to deliver the keynote speech as part of an ongoing effort to create a caring and supportive community at Harvard...
...author of four books related to Latin American literature, Sorensen has demonstrated a strong commitment to the humanities. She served on the Committee for General Education as it sought to formulate plans for the set of Gen Ed requirements and has also been associated with the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, and the Task Force on the Arts...
Egypt ranks low on the Obama Administration's list of regional priorities. The war in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli peace process and a growing al-Qaeda threat in Yemen are all outranking concerns. And the Administration has also sought to distance itself from some of the more aggressive policies of its predecessor, which Dunne says damaged bilateral relations with important allies like Egypt. "But I don't think they realize that there is real, observable backward movement when it comes to democratization and human rights in Egypt right now," she says. "And I think that the Obama Administration is going...
Historically similar cases have settled rather than gone to trial, Mason said. He suggested that monetary compensation might go to an appropriate public interest group or organization, rather than being distributed among all of Gmail’s users, but declined to estimate the amount of compensation sought by the plaintiffs...
...that in return for peace he would cancel death sentences hanging over 100 captured fighters from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and free a third of them. "Today ... we heal the war in Darfur," Bashir said. A JEM spokesman, speaking to al-Jazeera, said Bashir's government sought a cease-fire so as to ensure a peaceful vote in western Sudan. (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...