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...more Americans there. She persuaded Bush to back European-led negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and even offer to talk directly to Tehran if it stopped enriching uranium. But she also supports the military's recent moves to beef up a presence in the Persian Gulf and target Iranian interests in Iraq. Although both Bush and Rice deny they have any hostile intent, there is anxiety in some foreign-policy circles that even as it struggles to avoid losing one war in Iraq, the Administration may provoke another one across the border in Iran...
...School of Government course will also participate in this combination of academic learning and community involvement. In shaping the courses, the Bok Center is focusing on the pedagogic aspect of the process. Boes said the center will be “helping faculty develop teaching methods” to target the intersection of academic and service oriented learning. Aside from the Bok Center’s new “activity-based” courses, students can also participate in a not-for-credit course called “Education for Social Action,” sponsored by PBHA...
...sounds like science fiction - a heat ray that can zap rioting protesters, forcing them to flee without inflicting injuries. But the U.S. military's Active Denial System - which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation, causing its target to experience a burning sensation - is just the latest attempt to make crowd control more effective yet less lethal. Unlike traditional brute-force methods of dispersal - such as rubber bullets and batons, which can maim or even kill - a new wave of hi-tech crowd-control gadgets promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...paper was shut down was the “overly critical” articles and cartoons.Viveros said that there have been threats to fire faculty and expel students supporting the paper and speaking out against the administration.Outraged faculty members who requested a meeting with Chancellor Pedro Palou, the target of many of the controversial cartoons and columns, were not successful, according to Josefina Buxade, an associate professor and the first adviser of the paper.“In my opinion, this will be a death sentence for the paper,” said Buxade.Some of the contentious cartoons satirized Chancellor...
...details were puzzling. Why would Sunni insurgents, who generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...