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...when the author finds it necessary to earnestly overexplain the book's title. Shadows at Dawn, in this case, is meant to refer not only to the hour the massacre took place but to the "murky, often elusive nature of historical truth," while "Borderlands" refers both to the contested area separating the U.S. and Mexico and also to the demarcation between "history and storytelling...
...wake of the economic downturn, several universities in the Boston area are reevaluating their budgets, looking specifically at financial aid, construction projects, and employment. On November 10, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust emailed a letter to the faculty, students, and staff to discuss the “global economic crisis and its implications for us at Harvard...
...After a great deal of pressure from the U.S. military, the Iraqi government this month finally took charge of paying the salaries for the 54,000 SOI in the Baghdad area. (Abdallah's group remains on the U.S. payroll.) In early November, 3,000 SOI were inducted into the police training academy. Al-Ameri says 15,000 to 20,000 SOI will be inducted into Iraqi security forces, but only after further verification. The rest will have to give up their arms and take up other jobs - as carpenters, plumbers, electricians and so on. "We'll give them training...
...great hands, very patient,” Pusar said. “He doesn’t seem like a freshman at all, and we don’t look at him like he is one.” The players acknowledge that the most crucial area that needs improvement is their overall sense of team. “In order to improve, we need to trust each other,” Harris said. “The foundation is definitely there, but with this many freshman it’s harder to be familiar with each other...
...best hope of the independence activists may be to try to influence the strategies of negotiation rather than call for a wholesale change in policy. "We have realized that in the area of non-violence, we have used only 45 methods, but there are 200," Choeying says. "Within Middle Path there can be confrontation." Even among those who support independence, there is some skepticism about whether pushing for it now would be wise. "I'm divided," says Tenzin Choegyal, a delegate from Brisbane, Australia. "I'm a youth who's for independence, but looking at the path that we should...