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...resolved while U.S. forces remain in the country. If Rice is hoping that influential Arab moderates will echo the U.S. position, she may be disappointed. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, who earlier this year denounced the U.S. occupation of Iraq as "illegitimate," recently turned down a request from Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to meet in Saudi Arabia before the Sharm conference. "The Saudi king's schedule was not suitable for the timing," Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said on CNN Sunday...
...TENET: On the WMD question, absolutely not. They didn't even really know the [national intelligence] estimate was under way because we were doing it at the request of Congress...
This particular issue was raised after the UC declined to give Mather money to purchase a second foam machine for the annual Mather Lather foam party. When Mather HoCo’s request was voted down during the UC’s general meeting—causing an angry Mather HoCo to threaten to secede from the UC—many UC members pointed out that every HoCo, including Mather’s, had already received an unrestricted $4,700 at the beginning of the semester. Finance Committee (FiCom) chair Alexander “Zander?...
...course, not all open parties place a strain on HoCo finances and need to request funding. The Leverett 80s Dance, for example, makes a profit each semester. Even with Mather’s foam party, which is one of the most expensive, it is unclear how much of a strain is put on the Mather HoCo, which intends to sell 650 tickets at $10 a piece...
Aides to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have a small request for the Washington press corps on his first official visit to the U.S. this Thursday and Friday: Don't mention the war - or more specifically, Abe's stance on the tens of thousands of women in occupied countries forced to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese military during World War II. Partly in response to a draft U.S. congressional resolution urging Tokyo to issue a full and clear apology to the "comfort women," Abe in March denied that the Japanese government had been directly involved in forcing...