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...climate of fear has settled over Iraq's universities at a time when the country needs them most. Iraq's higher education system is slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime...
...grandpa used to say that the spd gave us prosperity after the war. That may be true, but they can't do it anymore." In the past, North Rhine-Westphalia, in which Duisburg is located, has been an spd stronghold, where no-nonsense blue-collar workers like Teusch rebuilt the city from the bombed-out ruins of World War II, turning it into Europe's biggest steel producer. But now Duisburg is a shadow of the boomtown it once was. A light smell of sulphur still fills the air, recalling times when steel mills lined the edge of the city...
...Yannatos rebuilt the orchestra through the 1970s and by the mid-’80s, it was back in shape. Today, it is unquestionably the ascendant orchestral group on campus despite the competition from groups like the Bach Society...
...journalists, to show any concrete results from the summit. "No deal is better than a bad deal," they quote him as telling them. Indeed, one adviser insists that Reagan is in the strongest pre-summit position of any President since Dwight Eisenhower in 1955.[*] The rationale: the U.S. has rebuilt its military strength, and its economy is prosperous; it has blunted what once looked like a Gorbachev propaganda advantage by making a new arms-reduction counterproposal two weeks ago, and enjoys solid support even from those allies most anxious for an arms-control deal; at home, Reagan's popularity...
...upcoming Superman Returns, is strolling through the rolling cornfields around what will soon be Clark Kent's childhood home. The corn is 12 weeks old, he says proudly, and was grown especially for the movie. "This entire house was constructed on a soundstage," Singer explains, "and then disassembled, rebuilt here in Tamworth [Australia] and then redressed." Not only are we not in Kansas anymore, but apparently we were never there in the first place...