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Touborg said that University told 20 workers last Wednesday that their jobs will terminate in 90 days. Forty additional positions from the central administration will be eliminated by March or April as part of a year-long review of current programs and practices aimed at reducing the overall budget for the 2005 Fiscal Year...
Watson’s efforts to improve the year-long course have already been noticed by the students in Ec 10. They applaud his energy and enthusiasm, calling it a notable difference from Li’s time at the helm...
...coming apart, consider the plight of Salim Izzat. Five months before the U.S. invasion last March, Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime ordered Izzat to vacate his farm outside the northern-Iraq town of Dibagan, 50 miles southeast of Mosul. The command was part of the regime's systematic, 15-year-long campaign to populate the predominantly Kurdish reaches of northern Iraq with ethnic Arabs. Kurds like Izzat were pushed out of their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed. A few days before the war, most of the Arabs who had taken up residence in Dibagan left...
...arrest of suspects preparing the attacks he had detailed. French officials say that having the three years to assemble a case against him has been crucial. "He continues to play the jihadist game," says one investigator. French officials are testing new, more aggressive techniques to thwart terrorism. One is to deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted...
Paley, whose tenure has been marked by a year-long effort to imbue the newspaper with color, hailed the change as vital for The Crimson’s readership...