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...changed for the better only after March 2008, when local units of the Iraqi army - trained by the Brits and in control of the region from September 2007 - launched an operation to disperse the militias. Now violence has been replaced by an uneasy calm, and with Britain preparing to withdraw all but a small rump of its 4,100 troops by May 31, Basra is daring to dream of peace. (See pictures of Basra back in business...
Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz has called for a “counter-disinvestment campaign” against Hampshire College unless the school explicitly denies claims that their recent decision to withdraw from a mutual fund represents an act of divestment from Israel. Hampshire administrators decided earlier this month to withdraw investments from a State Street mutual fund with holdings in six companies contracting with the Israeli military, after a college student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, petitioned the school to divest because of the companies’ ties to what students called “Israel?...
...magnet for militia attacks and struggled to deliver on promises of reconstruction and development. But in March 2008, the Iraqi army launched an operation code-named Charge of the Knights to disperse the militias. Since autumn, violence has been replaced by an uneasy calm, and with Britain preparing to withdraw all but a small rump of its 4,100 troops in southern Iraq by May 31, Basra is daring to dream of peace...
...that are and that want to stay at the top of their field, through all kinds of market cycles and economic conditions,” she wrote. Because of the recent losses in the endowment, HMC has drawn renewed criticism from some alumni, who called for the University to withdraw the multi-million dollar bonuses paid to top managers in a letter to University President Drew G. Faust. Former endowment chief Mohamed A. El-Erian and his five highest-paid associates received a total of $26.8 million in compensation for the year ending last June. In 2003, the same group...
...screwed up.' BARACK OBAMA, admitting errors in his handling of the tax controversy that led Tom Daschle to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services...