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...student advisory group to the Harvard presidential search committee made its final report public yesterday, following a meeting the group had with University President-elect Drew G. Faust on Monday...
...Monday's announcement by the Pentagon that it may call up to 13,000 National Guard troops for duty in Iraq was something of a milestone. Several thousand of these troops would be going to Iraq for a second time - the first return trip for large units of the National Guard since the war began...
...handle on whether or not the surge plan championed by Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is working. The 30,000 extra troops, largely dedicated to Baghdad, are designed to secure the capital and let the political process take root. While the Guard deployment announced Monday is not part of the surge, by the time those soldiers board airplanes bound for Iraq it should be apparent whether or not the surge is working. Older and a more integral part of their local communities, these politically potent soldiers are not going to be pleased if it appears...
...brazen step certain to aggravate the nuclear crisis between Iran and the West, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday his country was now capable of industrial scale uranium enrichment. The declaration carried the hallmarks of the president's theatrical, defiant speeches, styled to show off Iran's tough posture and encourage a sense of nationalist pride among ordinary Iranians. "With great pride, I declare that as of today our country has joined the nuclear club of nations," Ahmadinejad said, speaking before a great billboard of the Iranian flag encircled by the symbol for nuclear energy. The next day Iranian newspapers...
...claiming it is going to crack down on the country's rampant intellectual property abuse. In fact, the government declared this past March 15 anti-piracy day, and there are still big billboards downtown urging everyone to fight against IPR theft. Not surprisingly, Chinese officials threw a rhetorical fit Monday when first hearing the news of the U.S. intention, on behalf of the American music and film industries, to bring a case to the WTO. "Many countries are facing the same challenges in their anti-piracy campaigns," said Chen Zhaokuan, deputy director of China's Copyright Society. "For China...