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...jihadist suicide bombings since the deadly March 2004 attacks in Madrid, but on Tuesday morning there was another grim reminder that the threat of terrorism is far from over. Italian police in the southern city of Bari announced that they are holding two French nationals whom authorities call "top-level point men" for "al-Qaeda in Europe" and who were allegedly plotting kamikaze strikes in France and the U.K. - including one purportedly targeting the Charles de Gaulle airport. Counter-terrorism authorities in Paris tell TIME, meanwhile, that they believe the pair is only one part of a wider jihadist network...
...between student leaders and major decisions at the Kennedy School that I think students need to have some sort of representation in.”The resolution also asked that Ellwood reconvene the Dean’s Committee on Public Service, a group of student leaders, faculty members, and top-level administrators that first assembled in spring 2008.Spearheaded by 2008 HKS graduate Jeffrey R. Ginsburg, the committee aimed to meet every semester to strengthen the Kennedy School’s culture of public service.But the committee only met once, a statistic which Ginsburg calls alarming. “My understanding...
...carbon in the atmosphere wreaking havoc today was emitted by the major powers during the Industrial Revolution, thus absolving itself of any responsibility to curb emissions, appears ready to relent somewhat. Although they remain unwilling to cut e=missions at the expense of economic growth, a growing number of top-level Chinese bureaucrats are coming to the realization that, at the very least, they could adopt targets that would peg emissions to economic growth...
...collar not just the buyers who lied on loan applications, or brokers who ushered those shams along, but also the banks and lenders who looked the other way or actively participated in the scams (and often made a killing unloading toxic mortgages on Wall Street). That includes alleged top-level conspiracy "organizers" like Husani. "These kinds of crimes," Ibison notes, "rarely involve just...
...been forced to beg the government for money. But his case is a healthy reminder that even executive positions are tied to performance. Companies—and, in the case of firms that the government has bailed out, taxpayers—reserve the right to hire and fire even top-level management as they...