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...really appreciate incarceration. In April she opted to go to jail rather than do 240 hours of community service after she got nailed for drunken driving in Hawaii. She was sentenced to five days in an Oahu prison but spent less than three behind bars. She began a two-month jail stint last week in Los Angeles (the Hawaiian incident violated her probation from a 2004 hit and run) but was released less than five hours later. She still has to do 30 days of community service, though. Maybe, since it has worked out so well twice, she should...
...politicians owe as much to another country's government as Nouri al-Maliki owes to the Bush Administration. In April, strong U.S. backing catapulted al-Maliki into his job as Iraq's Prime Minister after a two-month impasse over the nomination of his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Sunni and Kurdish politicians say U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad leaned heavily on them to back al-Maliki. "Khalilzad made it clear there was only one man on Washington's wish list," a senior Kurdish leader told TIME on condition of anonymity. "Al-Maliki cannot have any doubts about...
...recent discovery by a team of researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston may allow babies to be vaccinated against pathogens including influenza, whooping cough, and ear infections the day they are born rather than after the typical two-month waiting period...
...students face an endless series of company presentations, so they often feel the need to sacrifice class work in order to get ahead. “I could get incrementally better at accounting or I could get a job,” says Blackley. He adds that during his two-month job search he spent about an hour each weekday researching firms and writing letters to establish contacts. The HBS administration also takes the recruiting process very seriously. Students are regularly given class time off for job interviews. A look at the HBS recruiting schedule, posted on their website, reveals...
...Maliki was nominated after al-Jaafari agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post. Though al-Maliki, who is in his mid-50s, was not the first choice of rival factions, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders said they would support him in the hope of ending a two-month political deadlock and moving the government forward...