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...combat operations. Within weeks the Shi'ites were up in arms again, after the bombing of the al-Ashkari Shrine in Samarra. This time, the target of their rage was the Sunni community, not U.S. forces. Shi'ite militias are blamed for much of the killings in Iraq's civil...
Professors at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) will lead a training program in India intended to bolster the management skills of the country’s senior policy makers this January. Around 300 of India’s senior civil servants are expected to participate, with the first four-week course, “Governance Challenges for India,” kicking off at the year’s start. The course, part of the KSG’s Executive Education program, will be conducted with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India?...
...which was once considered New England’s favorite fruit. He also oversaw the construction of the Middlesex Canal, which originally spanned from Boston Harbor to the Merrimack River in Lowell—a feat that earned him the moniker “Father of American Civil Engineering.” “He was a pretty extraordinary fellow,” Edmonds said. The memorial, which consists of a triangle-shaped green, a cannon, and a six-foot tall statue of Baldwin standing atop two rectangular five-ton pedestals, was unveiled on Patriots?...
...November 24, the U.S. Department of Education implemented new rules interpreting Title IX, the landmark Civil Rights legislation of 1972. These rules will allow—and implicitly encourage—American public schools to be single...
...Arab novelists and filmmakers for publicizing women's suffering and offering models of hope. But in its conclusion, "Towards the Rise" recognizes the huge obstacles that remain. Unwilling to leave reform to government or Islamic leaders, the report calls for a "widespread and effective movement of struggle in Arab civil society" - a social revolution, really - to advance women's rights...