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...been involved in what he called an “aggressive” faculty recruiting season. Even as his downstairs neighbor is preparing to move out of University Hall and University President Lawrence H. Summers is preparing to vacate Mass. Hall, Casey said the administrative exodus will not prevent him from bringing new faculty members to campus. “It presents some challenges,” Casey said. “However, the act of selecting scholars, the act of appointing new colleagues is the work of the Faculty and they do the searching, and so I have...
...Jaafari, who is prime minister of the interim government. But Kurdish, Sunni and secular parties have in recent days mounted a strong challenge, demanding that Jaafari's nomination be withdrawn. They blame Jaafari for the interim government's many failings, including its failure to act quickly and decisively to prevent the sectarian conflagration that followed the Samarra blast...
...able to contain himself when someone mentions his favorite corner of the globe and he may often bring it up first. He is the go-to-geek, er, guy when you’ve got a particular question, but even he knows that he has to check himself to prevent the over-saturation of his companions...
...Pentagon says it has instituted reforms to prevent the detainee abuse that occurred in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal from ever happening again. But in a scathing 48-page report released on Monday, Amnesty International concludes that whatever reforms have been put into effect are clearly not doing the job: Mistreatment of detainees in Iraq, particularly by Iraqi security forces, is still widespread, Amnesty argues...
...despite all the bluster from all sides, the search for a compromise formula on Iranian enrichment activities remains very much alive. A Russian proposal to enrich the fuel for Iran's reactors on its own soil - so as to prevent material being diverted for further enrichment for a bomb program - right now remains the most likely contender. There's no deal yet, because Tehran is insisting that it retain the right to continue small-scale enrichment for research purposes on its own soil, a demand flatly rejected by the West. But the fact that the parties continue to negotiate even...