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...Sophie Ramayat, an 18-year-old in Silicon Valley, joined the NYU 2013 group as well as groups for three other schools she was accepted into - the University of Richmond, the University of Washington and American University - and has been browsing the discussion boards on them to get a preview of life on the different campuses. "You can kind of tell what the students are like," she says. "I noticed that everyone at the University of Richmond is white." (See how to get off college waiting lists...
...general and colonel believed to have cofounded JITEM, a secretive military-intelligence unit which many Kurds suspect is responsible for most of the dirty work in the southeast, including the extrajudicial killings of dozens of Kurdish activists. The Ergenekon trial - the group named itself after a mythic central Asian valley Turks believe they come from - "is a milestone," says Nuserivan Elci, who represents some 50 families of the 'missing' in Silopi. "It's a historic opportunity for Turkey to deal with its past...
...former JITEM member now living in Sweden went public with details of abductions he witnessed in the 1990s. He named Aslan's son and described how he was tortured, shot in the head and set on fire. Based on his description, Aslan drove out to a valley near Silopi and found bones near a tree by a riverbed. He badgered a local prosecutor who eventually put him on a bus to Istanbul with a plastic bag carrying the bones for forensic identification. The tests proved the bones were Murat...
Because the goal remains valid. Meers (a former managing director at Goldman Sachs) and Strober (managing director of a private-equity firm in Silicon Valley) do an admirable job of building a case that a 50-50 marriage helps both partners. "We are two working moms who believe that everyone wins when men are full parents and women have full careers. When both parents pay the bills and care for kids, this life is possible--we know from experience...
...extensively with U.S. efforts to target al-Qaeda militants on its own soil, facilitating the capture of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and scores of other operatives. Its army has lost several hundred men in clashes with various Pakistani Taliban groups in the tribal areas and the Swat Valley. Still, it's no secret that the Afghan Taliban's leadership continues to operate from the Pakistani city of Quetta, and reports of ongoing Pakistani backing for Taliban efforts in Afghanistan have surfaced regularly in recent years...