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...different states and are policed by separate departments. But unlike in America, where, before 9/11, FBI agents in Minneapolis couldn’t easily communicate their concerns about a terrorist plot with their counterparts in Phoenix AZ, Washington D.C., or at the CIA, who could have acted against the threat, the Germans saw to it that jurisdictional boundaries were nothing more than lines...
...from Arlington, the other from Worchester—contracted the disease in Massachusetts. Despite the recent cases, and the discovery earlier this month of infected mosquito populations just north of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the University’s West Nile Virus Task Force does not consider it an immediate threat. The mosquito-borne virus, which can be lethal to humans in a small minority of cases, has surfaced in the greater Boston area every year since it first appeared in the state in 2000, according to Sam Lipson, the city’s director of environmental health. Lipson said that...
...debate that offered the most intimate glimpse of the top candidates ahead of Sunday's poll, a stern-looking Karamanlis warned he would block Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union unless a decade-long dispute over the name of the neighbouring state was resolved. The threat sparked a diplomatic tiff between Athens and Skopje since the debate, with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovksi saying he would withdraw from the U.N.-brokered name talks if Greece vetoed his country's designs to join NATO. Greece argues that Macedonia's name implies territorial claims against its region...
...toughest call of the week. Hawks’ quarterback Sedale Threatt in the kind of dual-threat playmaker Liam O’Hagan hopes to be—he turned in 302 yards passing and 58 rushing in Lehigh’s season opener. Roger Hughes has done an excellent job in Jersey for a couple of years running now, but there has to be a hangover from last year’s co-Ivy title and the graduation of team heart and soul Jeff Terrell...
...Under a new proportional electoral system, a slim victory with less than 1.5 percentage points between the two main parties can deprive the winner of an outright majority in parliament. On Wednesday, a host of independent pollsters conducting secret tracking polls said the Prime Minister's threat of political uncertainty in addition to his crisis management after the fires had boosted his approval ratings - a claim denied by socialists, who said that both parties were locked in a "dead even" race...