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...While Harvard officials declined to name the student, the statement said the student was no longer on Harvard's campus. Pak could not be reached for comment, and spokesmen for the University and HUPD declined to comment while the investigation is ongoing. —Check thecrimson.com for updates...
...down in Baghdad, the Americans are not keen to associate themselves with the specifics of Turkey's campaign against the PKK. At a press conference Wednesday spokesmen for the U.S. military and the American embassy repeatedly said that questions about the raids should be asked of the Turkish and Iraqi governments, not the U.S. military in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said that American military cooperation with Turkey comes through the U.S.'s European Command; American forces in Iraq are under a separate regional chain of command. Philip Reeker, the U.S. embassy's spokesman, stressed that the raids were "Turkish...
...most striking aspects of China's emergence as a world power has been the sophistication with which the nation's complex and evolving new role on the global stage has been managed. A country that once was known for stonefaced spokesmen spouting slogans has displayed a remarkable finesse in forging new relationships and revivifying old ones. In the last five years, for example, President Hu Jintao has led a concerted effort to spread China's so-called "soft power" in Asia, Africa and South America. There have also been sharp reversals of what previously seemed intractable positions on key regional...
Last week, opponents of human embryonic stem cell research declared that new research techniques have cleared away the ethical controversies that have plagued stem cell science. From Vatican City to the Bush administration, spokesmen gave sound bites of “we told you so”; with above-the-fold headlines in every major paper describing how scientists can now create stem cells without destroying embryos, opponents of embryonic stem cell research claimed to hold unbeatable evidence on their side...
Much the same way that owners grow to look like their dogs, sometimes spokesmen begin to resemble their candidates. That's certainly true of Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney's national press secretary, though his neat, Romneyesque looks are quickly belied by a thick New York accent. Shifting seamlessly between sound bites and genial (if sometimes vulgar) humor, Madden, 35, has kept the campaign from getting too rattled by Romney's occasional malapropisms and gaffes. The effortlessness with which he laughs off Romney's missteps (when Romney told Fox News that his favorite novel was a sci-fi tome by Scientology...