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...Hammonds begins her first academic year in office, she said her primary focus would be on the implementation of Gen Ed, though House renewal plans will remain of high importance...
...from Ho Chi Minh City after he served 27 months in prison for sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11. But Gadd didn't want to go home to Britain. He refused to board a connecting flight in Bangkok, where Thai immigration authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand. After twenty hours in the Bangkok transit hall - and after 2,661 miles...
...hill, but have stopped going because of fears of mines. (There are no confirmed reports of mining in the area.) . Rumors of Russian provocations, plans to dress up as Georgian troops and attack their own positions in order to provide Moscow with a pretext to remain on the ground as "peacekeepers" are increasingly common in the capital...
...even if this is the beginning of the end, the war ended up being far from the "cakewalk" some war boosters predicted. More than five years after it began, there remain about 145,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. A total of 4,146 Americans military personnel have died, and 30,324 more have been wounded. There have been more than 100,000 violent Iraqi deaths. The war, even if it were to stop tomorrow, will likely end up costing U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion, including the cost of long-term care for wounded veterans...
There's no question they're athletic, these muscled, agile women competing in Beijing. But the question remains: Should synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics remain Olympics sports? Both disciplines came of age in a not-so-distant era when women weren't allowed to lift weights or pole vault or compete in the triathlon - all of which were inaugurated as female Olympic sports only as recently as 2000. (In the first modern Olympics in 1896, women were excluded altogether.) But today, with Title IX - the education amendment that allocates funds equally between genders - an entrenched part of American schools...