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...There's one BBC interviewer so confident of skewering evasions that he seems almost languid as he moves in for the kill. Jeremy Paxman's usual quarry are obfuscating politicians, but his target on Oct. 17 was Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust. Lyons, Paxman's bosses' boss, had agreed to appear on the BBC's in-depth news program Newsnight to give his explanation for staff cuts and other measures the director general would announce the following day. These would include a paring back of the BBC's much-vaunted news-gathering operation. How, Paxman wondered, could such...
...game’s longest play from scrimmage, and it came to fruition thanks to Pizzotti buying his target some time...
Worse, Turkish public fury has now found a second target in the Kurdish regional government of north Iraq, which popular opinion in Turkey has accused of harboring the PKK. Opposition politicians have called on the military to declare the Iraqi Kurdish administration an "enemy" and target them in any operation. Turkey is already deeply suspicious of Iraq's Kurds and their progress over the past four years toward creating an independent Kurdish state, which could in turn foment unrest among its own Kurdish population. "From this point on, our barrels are pointed at [Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud] Barzani," wrote Ertugrul...
...Harris said, declining to offer more details on the transition. But the implementation plan, parts of which must be approved by a full vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, should be ready before the end of the semester, Harris said. “My target is to have this adopted by December,” he said. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...says their target is not all foreigners, but those who commit serious crimes like rape and murder; they point out that about 70% of those in Swiss prisons are foreign-born residents. Schlüer says that the waves of African and Balkan refugees during the past two decades are evidence enough of Switzerland's openness. "Integration is a success," he says. Yet it is largely because of its anti-immigrant stance that the party's ranks have soared; the SVP has nearly doubled its members of parliament since 1995, from 29 to 55 this year. That number could increase...