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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...According to Capt. Jon Brooks, who recently took command of the U.S. unit responsible for south Ghazaliya, the number of civilian bodies dumped in the neighborhood has declined by more than 50% since the barriers went up. An Iraqi who lives in Ghazaliya and reports for TIME agreed that local violence - from kidnappings and killings to sectarian clashes - has been curtailed by the wall...
...corruption cases," he says. For Siemens, the end of the bad news is far from over. As Kleinfeld was making his parting statements, the SEC launched an official investigation into the company. And Siemens conceded that the amount of money siphoned off for bribes at its telecom unit is probably much higher than the $570 million previously thought...
...Over lunch in the VA hospital's spinal cord injury unit, the director explains that the toughest part to cast in Halloween was the teenage babysitter. You'd think there would be hordes of girls lining up to make the career transition from tween starlet to the role that brought Jamie Lee Curtis fame in the original. And indeed there were. "We kept getting sent these typical Hollywood hottie girls who grate on your nerves, with perfectly plucked eyebrows," says Zombie. Ultimately, he went with a normal-looking teenager named Scout Taylor-Compton, 18, who has solid indie creds, including...
...herself as an impressive breakout player, but she is supported by an extremely talented freshman class. That close-knit peer environment certainly has an effect on how rapidly a team can improve, and Murphy agrees.“I feel like we all work together as a very cohesive unit and that we all help each other out all the time,” said Murphy, “I think it’s great to have that support system coming from everybody on the team.”That support system has helped the Crimson softball team improve...
Over the past three years, Asano has worked mostly with Harvard’s defensive unit and recruiting program after coaching the offense in her first two seasons...