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Richard is currently in Singapore, where she is advising the Asian nation's Ministry of Education as it seeks to strengthen its university system...
...work when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agrees, at the prodding of the Bush Administration, to release to President Mahmoud Abbas $100 million of the Palestinian Authority funds it has frozen - and Abbas's aides then tell the New York Times that the money will be used "to strengthen his Fatah movement and pay salaries to Fatah loyalists." Clearly, the U.S. and Israel have come full circle on the question of Palestinian governance: Now that Yasser Arafat is gone, they appear to be reinventing...
...result, candidates who were in college or who had recently graduated from college believed—incorrectly—that they had to accumulate several more years of work experience in order to strengthen their application,” Leopold writes...
...overseen by the Interior Ministry--have been so thoroughly infiltrated by militias that some U.S. trainers will have to bring in new recruits and retrain much of the current batch before they can turn combat responsibilities over to the Iraqis. There are already concerns that by rushing to strengthen the Iraqis, U.S. forces may be ignoring abuses committed by the very people they're training. "I am greatly concerned that U.S. aid--including weapons--has gone to Iraqi security forces who have violated human rights," says Senator Patrick Leahy, a senior Democrat from Vermont who sits on the Senate Appropriations...
...that so many schools are engaged in defense-related research and thus theoretically are producing findings that should be subject to export controls. The report also noted that over 55 percent of engineering doctoral candidates in the U.S. are foreign-born. And while “their research helps strengthen the United States in the fastest-moving new technologies,” according to the report, the statistic also means that non-citizens are engaged in sensitive defense-related research. The auditors told Commerce and State Department officials to up their efforts “to ensure that universities understand...