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...significance of Iran's enrichment announcement, and Tehran's next moves, may not quite match Ahmadinejad's sanguine rhetoric. Iran's enrichment experiment was in defiance of U.N. demands, but it has not ended cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA - in fact, IAEA inspectors are currently in Iran taking samples to verify Iran's enrichment claims...
...know four people who worked there and a lot of people who shop there,” Hurley says. Kmart, which Harvard accused of lapsing on the terms of its lease, will vacate the property at the beginning of August. Members of the Allston Task Force, a 16-person watchdog body appointed by the mayor to review Harvard’s plan, repeatedly press the University to find tenants for its currently vacant properties along Western Avenue. Moran said it was hard to judge how the University’s presence would impact the neighborhood at this point...
...Qadhafi was not alone in his fears, according to the cable, which was provided to TIME by Judicial Watch, an investigative watchdog group. Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, Osama bin Laden's onetime refuge, also implored other Arab leaders to vouch for his lack of involvement in 9/11 and hold an Arab summit. The idea, apparently, was to try to show solidarity with the U.S. and other U.S.-friendly Arab regimes. "The Sudanese and Libyans sounded very afraid to their Egyptian and other interlocutors," the cable says. The Sudanese ambassador "had a quivering voice...
...claims cosponsor Christopher Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, would effectively put a NOT FOR SALE sign in front of the Capitol. But it is so weak that some reformers--including Republican John McCain and Democrat Russell Feingold--voted no. Both bills, says Fred Wertheimer, head of the nonpartisan Democracy 21 watchdog group, "leave lobbyists free to function in Congress exactly the way they have been functioning...
...delegates hosted by the French UN mission. During that session, the official says, 13 of 15 representatives expressed agreement with a French-British draft proposal to have the Security Council issue a statement giving Iran two weeks to comply with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the watchdog organization that works to prevent nuclear proliferation...