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Among ordinary Muslims, outrage at the bloodshed in Iraq and the excesses of the Administration's campaign against al-Qaeda--in particular, reported abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay prisons--has strengthened the appeal of Islamists opposed to the West. As a result, elections are producing governments more hospitable to extremism, not less. Exhibit A was the election of Hamas, a group the U.S. and Europe classify as a terrorist organization, to run the Palestinian Authority. In response to Hamas' victory, the U.S. has led an international ban on aid to the democratically elected Palestinian government...
...evaluation consisted of daily and hourly head counts that gauged total library use as well as the particular library areas students were working in, Wood said. HCL also kept track of the rate of circulation of Lamont’s various collections...
...This process allows each officer to become an expert on his or her region and to understand students in the context of their school and surroundings. “Obviously when you’ve been doing a particular area for 25 years you’re able to spot the students who just pop out,” says officer Melanie Brennand Mueller...
...university on Monday, when the Associated Press first reported on the story. The investigation is not the first time Yale has come under fiscal scrutiny this year. The HHS inspector general reported in February that the university misreported a significant proportion of its $508,000 in invoices for a particular grant. Representatives of the DOD, HHS, NSF, and the Yale Office of the Vice President and General Counsel all declined to comment for this story. The Connecticut District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where any Department of Justice subpoenas against Yale would be filed, did not respond...
...wife Edith and a family friend, then left town on a midnight train. No sooner did news of the meal became public than the firestorm began. Accused of promoting "social equality," which some feared would encourage intermarriage of white women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey and Our Coon-Flavored President. South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman said, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before...