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Lapp specifically pointed to the empty Citgo station site as evidence of Harvard’s efforts...
...shelved the 2006 accord and reopened negotiations with the U.S. After months of waffling and breaking self-imposed deadlines, it's not clear exactly what Hatoyama will propose to Washington, but he told reporters in late March, "I personally should like to consider a path to relocate the air station outside Okinawa...
...banks of both that canal and one other, which runs along the eastern edge of the hornet's nest. "It's a crucial strategic position," Ellis says. "My plan was to build a strongpoint next to the school that would later be converted into an Afghan police station. It was necessary to protect the teachers and students, but it was also necessary to protect the town. That intersection was the Taliban's way in, and as soon as the enemy found out that we wanted to reopen the school, they began to concentrate their forces on the area as well...
...logistics were a killer. To reopen the school, Ellis needed to purchase some of the adjacent land to build an access road and the police station he had proposed. Hajji Lala, the local warlord, insisted he had that covered. "I kept asking him for the names of the landowners," Ellis says. "He kept saying, 'No problem.' " But it was a problem. Most of the property in the Zhari district is owned by absentee landlords. When Ellis pressed Hajji Lala for names yet again in late February, he was told, "You're going to have to find out who owns that...
...those different visions of Britain. On Tuesday, Conservative leader David Cameron presented his party's manifesto in a derelict power station festooned with the word "CHANGE." He has promised Britons "change [they] can believe in" and at the launch reworked another familiar phrase, saying, "Yes we can ... make things better without spending more money." Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, chose a rural backdrop for Labour's manifesto unveiling on Monday: a sunlit cornfield, the grain undulating in a virtual breeze. Britain? This looked more like Oklahoma. (See pictures of the U.K. election campaign...