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This poll was conducted for TIME, ABC News, the BBC, NHK and Der Spiegel by Oxford Research International. Interviews were conducted in person from Oct. 8 to Nov. 13, in Arabic and Kurdish, among a random national sample of 1,711 Iraqis age 15 and older. Margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points...
...When von der Heydt does bust smokers, he says, the actions he takes are remedial rather than punitive...
...der Heydt, the senior tutor in Winthrop House, says he “very rarely” has to deal with marijuana smoking in the House...
...Summers an ex officio member—said that the president was clearly frustrated with the dean’s practice of skimming over difficult issues rather than thoroughly addressing them. Kirby and Summers have “very different personalities,” Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, the chair of the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department, said yesterday. “I always felt Dean Kirby was very conciliatory and very willing to listen to different sides, and I’m not sure if the president is cut from the same cloth.”Several...
...Commander Jeff Breslau, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, says that coalition forces will help ships in distress but that "the focus is not on piracy or maritime crime." The increased naval presence in the Gulf of Aden may have caused the escalation in attacks further south. Leo van der Velden, the WFP's deputy country director for Somalia, says that over the past few years, pirates from northern Somalia have begun training and working with bandits in central Somalia, which western forces patrol less regularly...