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...brazen strike in a fortified part of the capital near the Interior and Oil ministries and other government offices took place just? hours before Major General David Perkins, spokesman for U.S forces in Iraq, said that American troops would be pared down from 14 to 12 brigades by September, reducing the 140,000-strong force by 12,000. President Barack Obama plans to withdraw all combat troops by September next year, leaving a residual force of up to 50,000 support and training troops. Four thousand British troops are also scheduled to pull out in the next few months...
...Dabbagh, the government spokesman, told the same press conference that "what happened today will not undermine overall security improvements." But Iraq is by no means out of the woods. Increasingly acrimonious divisions between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his expanding list of political rivals could deepen as the national elections slated for December approach. The temperature of intra-sectarian politics, between rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups respectively, is also bound to rise in the coming months. Although January's provincial elections went off without a hitch, there's more at stake in the national polls, which will determine...
...longtime observers. Just last week, Bunning reportedly told party donors that if the party kept pressuring him, he would simply quit and allow the Democratic governor of Kentucky to appoint his replacement. He has since denied the claims, and did so to TIME again this week through a spokesman. But the Louisville Courier-Journal, the state's leading newspaper, has stuck with its story, citing three sources who say they heard Bunning make the threat...
...representatives of its medical school, affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, and the student body to review its pharma policy, though the university is hedging on whether it actually plans to change the way it operates. "We cannot speculate on the outcomes of the review process" is all a spokesman is willing to say. And as of Wednesday, Pfizer had apologized to Grassley for what it called the "unfortunate incident" that has "overshadowed the importance of collaboration between industry and leading academic medical institutions." That may be nothing more than a well-spun half-apology - but it doesn't mean...
...fortune.”But the administration has continued to state that no areas of the life sciences—or any departments for that matter—are being prioritized.“The administration has no favorite departments,” wrote Harvard’s science spokesman B.D. Colen in an e-mailed statement. Within days of recognizing the likelihood of a slowdown, the administration began consulting with deans and department chairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School to find alternative space for groups that had planned on moving into Allston, Colen...