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...that the U.S. government and universities work together to help students to give back. In March of this year, Harvard Law School announced a new program to waive tuition for third year students who spend five years working for nonprofit organizations or the government. Though the program received little press coverage, it merits a great deal of praise since not all roads should lead to lucrative private sector jobs. Programs like these are an important step towards eliminating a socioeconomic barrier to entry for public service. Significantly, it also incentivizes the best and the brightest to consider non-profit options...
...controls in the southern city of Basra. The Mahdi Army fought Iraqi forces to a standstill there while unleashing a daily hail of rockets and mortars on the Green Zone that left al-Maliki's government effectively the ones under siege. And when U.S. and Iraqi troops tried to press into Sadr City to chase the militia's mortar men and rocketeers, they barely managed to establish a foothold on the southern edge of the neighborhood before the situation stalemated...
...their allied militias, and the arrest of hundreds of others. Journalists are also prime targets. Several foreign correspondents have been arrested for working without accreditation in the past few weeks (Zimbabwe routinely denies accreditation to almost all foreign reporters). More precarious is the position of the independent Zimbabwean press, who cannot rely on outside help...
...Chikwore gone to investigate. "Before I knew it, seven armed policemen arrested me," he said. "They dragged me to my home where they confiscated my video and still cameras, laptop and dicta-phone. I was told that I was being charged for practicing without accreditation. When I produced my press card, they changed the charges to arson. That also didn't stick so they preferred malicious injury to property. [In addition,] I was suspected of attempted murder. Eventually, I was charged with public violence in court." Chikwore was finally released on May 2, along with six M.D.C. activists. All seven...
...press conference, Carmen Marcos, chief coin curator for Spain's National Archaeology Museum, said that limited, preliminary evidence suggested that the pieces of eight recovered from the ship were minted in 1803 in the then-Spanish colony of Peru. "The coins show us that the ship had recently left the port of El Callao in Lima. Of that, there is no doubt," she said. Historical documents that Spain presented today show that the Mercedes left El Callao in April...