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...same thing for all Americans. But if there is anything his victory has taught us, it is that we are not such a divided people as we have been told we are for the past eight years. This makes Obama’s victory as a black man special, not just for black Americans, but for all Americans who value equality and hold fast to the idea that we are a better nation than the past has shown...
...added that while the concentration has always held a special place in the University—as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities—its honors-only status scared away many people. The removal of the thesis requirement creates another option for students, and it also reflects the department’s commitment to enable students to adapt the concentration to their particular needs, professors said...
...agents took up the convicted sailors' cause after Frank Stokes, a 30-year veteran of the FBI who specialized in violent crimes, first looked at the case three years ago. Stokes felt the convictions were obviously a miscarriage of justice and asked one of the case lawyers to speak to the Richmond chapter of the Society of Former Special Agents, many of whom signed the letter to Governor Kaine. "It is the most egregious thing I've seen," says Stokes...
...corpse were selected pieces of animal bone, a cowtail, an eagle wing, the foot of another human, and, most curiously, some fifty tortoise shells deliberately arranged around the woman's body - all tell-tale signs, experts say, of her lofty social status at the time. "This is something very special; it stands apart," says Leore Grosman, the project's lead archaeologist...
...findings at the Syrian site have yet to be declared in any official IAEA documentation, but whatever the conclusion of the IAEA's investigation, the deepening suspicions toward the Assad regime are coming at an increasingly complicated moment in relations between Damascus and Washington. Late last month, U.S. special forces launched a raid into eastern Syria targeting an alleged al-Qaeda weapons smuggler. In response, the Syrian government shut down an American school and cultural center in Damascus, and forced American Fulbright scholars based at Syrian institutions to leave the country. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that...