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...Maliki's Shi'ite and Kurdish allies backed the pact, which requires that U.S troops redeploy out of Iraqi towns and cities to bases in the countryside by June of next year, and completely withdraw by the end of 2011. The Sunni Tawafuk bloc also gave it the nod, after securing concessions on its demands for an amnesty for detainees in U.S custody, and for the holding of a referendum on the security pact next July. A ?no' vote in that referendum could torpedo the deal, and give Washington one year's notice to leave, effectively bringing forward...
...elect Barack] Obama and [Senator John] McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path to citizenship for illegal aliens...
...been hit, but University President Drew G. Faust cautioned in a letter to the community earlier this month that each school will need to tighten its belt in the coming months. The Medical School holds roughly 11.7 percent of the University endowment, or $4.32 billion, as of last June. Though Flier said that the Medical School will need to “make some hard decisions and difficult tradeoffs” in response to the impact of the turbulent economic climate, the Medical School is “strong and secure” at this point. In the coming months...
...first federal court review of government evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, a judge ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody...
...feel optimistic that the facility will be closed? Absolutely. President-elect Obama has been consistent on this. When the decision on our case came down on June 12 from the Supreme Court, he praised it as a well thought out decision that the Constitution required. I think there's no doubt that it will happen and happen relatively early in his administration...