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...million: Amount the department has said it may withhold from Utah if the state allows local districts to ignore parts of the federal...
Civilian-funded troops are unconventional and unprecedented. In the past, the UN deployed peacekeeping missions and funded them as necessary. However, in the case of Darfur, the UN has shown reluctance and continues to withhold from sending troops to the troubled region. Responsibility has, instead, shifted to the AU, whose peacekeeping troops’ mandate is yet to be ratified by a majority of the states. This will be the first deployment of AU troops and these soldiers have the daunting task of policing a region the size of France on a mandate to observe and report that all parties...
...high-profile duo called their campaign Senior Gift Plus, and asked graduating seniors to withhold their traditional donations to the Senior Gift Fund until the University divested. A little over a week ago, the work paid...
...There are areas where the press itself is not only willing but anxious to cooperate." Meese suggested the possibility of negotiated agreements with the Government "to delay the release of information which would be inimical to the peaceful or rapid solution of a particular operation, or perhaps temporarily to withhold information or even some interviews" that might endanger hostages. News organizations have sometimes voluntarily withheld such information, but CBS and NBC news chiefs were probably expressing the majority view in the media when they turned down Meese's proposed formal agreement...
What Senior Gift Plus shows us is that the best recourse for seniors wishing to give notice they won’t stand idly by while Harvard ignores their soon-to-be former classmates is to withhold Senior Gift. As Senior Gift participation rates are widely used as propaganda by the University to show wealthy alums that undergrads are happy with their College experience and thus that Harvard deserves a donation, the most effective way to voice dissatisfaction is to simply refuse to contribute...