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...arrests have forced the protesters to abandon their sit-in in the latest chapter in Hawaii's months-long "furlough Fridays" saga. Nearly 170,000 students statewide have been affected since the program began last October. There are four more Friday closures planned before the school year ends in May. "While we're disappointed, we take away a victory - that the eyes of the world were focused on the failure of furloughs," says protester Clare Hanusz. "We're disgusted with the governor and her leadership, and we'll be focusing our efforts elsewhere. That doesn't mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii's Fight Over School Furloughs Heats Up | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...list how many of the organizers of the subway bombings had been killed, but said the perpetrators had been identified and were being pursued. Those investigations have focused on the brother and husband of Maryam Sharipova, the 28-year-old computer science teacher who allegedly blew herself up in the subway just beneath Lubyanka Square, the home of Bortnikov's FSB. The hunt for the man said to be her husband and his associates has been used to justify this week's crackdown in Dagestan. But Sharipova's father, Rasul Magomedov, told The Associated Press on April 6 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's War on Terror: A Crackdown by Popular Demand | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...brutal phase. "Now the heads of security forces have the green light to act with maximum harshness, including against the families of the terrorists," says Pavel Baev, an expert on the North Caucasus for the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo. It is a dramatic policy reversal. Just last year, Moscow was trying to create jobs and opportunities for young people while seeking to uproot the deep hatred many locals have for the police and federal government. Medvedev was the main advocate of this approach, but, says Baev, "he was not prepared for these kinds of terror attacks, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's War on Terror: A Crackdown by Popular Demand | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...Post, citing Israeli military sources, reported on Tuesday that Syria rebuffed an Israeli overture to have indirect military communications through the U.N. observer force that monitors the demilitarized buffer zone between the two sides in the Golan, whose purpose is solely to prevent an outbreak of violence. So this year's Independence Day picnickers on Mount Hermon will enjoy their hummus under what appears to be a looming storm cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syrian Saber-Rattling Has U.S. Concerned | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...about how you engage the enemy so much now. It's how you engage your district governor," says Brown. "That's a huge change for guys like us - call us knuckle draggers or whatever, but we weren't trained to do COIN." (See pictures of Person of the Year 2009 Runner-Up General Stanley McChrystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

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