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...charge of daily operations and home affairs. Tsvangirai considers the latter cabinet essential given its control of the police, who were tools for Mugabe’s suppression of Tsvangirai supporters in the weeks before the presidential runoff. They were so violent that Tsvangirai was forced to withdraw even though he had won the initial popular vote. Mugabe has rejected this balance of power and made cabinet appointments unilaterally, causing a new power dispute...
Iraq: "Responsible" Withdrawal Iraq votes twice in 2009, with provincial elections in January and national elections slated for the end of the year. And the outcome of those votes could have a major impact on the security conditions on the ground in Iraq, which will affect the calculation of Obama's plan to withdraw "responsibly" from Iraq within 16 months...
Senior U.S. military officials will likely advise Barack Obama to adjust his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. While promising a 16-month timetable for getting all U.S. fighting forces out, Obama repeatedly insisted on what he calls a "responsible" withdrawal. Pulling nearly all U.S. troops and equipment out of Iraq in 16 months is "physically impossible," says a top officer involved in briefing the President-elect on U.S. operations in Iraq. That schedule would create a bottleneck of equipment and troops in the south of Iraq and Kuwait where brigades repair, clean...
...members do not meet to discuss a case and do not discuss a case even in the meeting until the student has had a chance to appear and present his or her side of the story. To say that the decision is already made and that a requirement to withdraw is all but automatic is wrong. This can be seen in the statistics of Board decisions. In the last academic year there were a total of 81 disciplinary cases before the Board. Of those cases, 23, only 28 percent, ended in the student being required to withdraw. Given that most...
...Jing, a 32-year-old single mother who works at a state-owned oil company, also applauded Obama's victory. "I remember Obama's promise to withdraw the troops from Iraq, and I think it's about time," she said. "Why? It's all about the economy. Without the war, I'm hoping the economic situation will improve, and believe it or not, we are not beyond the influence of the U.S. economy. We have not been paid for four months...