Word: uncleared
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...Helgen ’08, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “It really does show how we are getting back to real issues that affect people’s lives.” The Harvard Republican Club did not return a request for comment. It remains unclear how an increase in the Pell Grant would be funded. Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, said yesterday that it was “quite possible” that “individual students could be less well off” if supplemental aid programs...
...Although the 150 dogs on the jeep were saved, its driver was released and it remains unclear whether he faces any criminal charges. While eating dog meat has been banned in the Philippines since 1998, the Animal Kingdom Foundation alleges that as many as 200,000 dogs a year are slaughtered here for their meat. Last year, during a visit to Baguio - known as center of canine cuisine - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hosted a dinner for the Baguio City officials where she made comments that the local media deemed to have fallen well short of condemning the practice: "Dog meat...
...spree had only begun. After belting down three vodkas, Delgado, a Colombian electronics engineer and a Viet Nam veteran, opened fire again, indiscriminately spraying the restaurant and its patrons with gunfire before police finally arrived and shot him dead. At week's end, the motive behind the massacre remained unclear. The final toll: 27 dead and ten wounded...
Boesky may have been involved in the takeover fight, but his role is unclear. He is rumored to have held $100 million worth of stock in Distillers, and at one point he talked to representatives of the Argyll Group about what he could do to help their efforts. More intriguing, perhaps, are reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which nabbed Boesky for illegal insider trading in the U.S., delivered a packet of information to the London investigators shortly before their Guinness probe was launched...
...unclear if Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Basra on his second trip to Iraq, was getting the same message in his closed-door meetings with U.S. and coalition commanders, including U.S. Army General George Casey and British Major General Jonathan Shaw, the senor officer in the region. The British government has indicated that it is likely to start withdrawing its contingent of some 7,000 troops in Iraq later this year...