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...Operation Historic Protector is a small initiative at the moment. Brachfeld has only two of his 16-member staff assigned to it, and so far the Office of Management and Budget has refused his request for funding increases to beef up the team. But he says he hopes to build up his force along with a network of outside artifacts experts around the country who will tip off his agents "every time they find something suspicious. And we swoop down...
This was not a request for support. This was a proposal made within the harsh reality of the nation’s affordable housing landscape, where funds to create new affordable units are scarce. Equally scarce are the government dollars that could prolong the lifespan of an aging facility like Charlesview...
...willing to discuss how its nuclear program can be limited, Beijing now has to "think very hard about how they can be more effective," Lieberthal says. But in reality, Beijing's options are very limited. Pyongyang made it clear with the nuclear test - undertaken despite the express and public request by China's President Hu Jintao to refrain - that there are limits to Beijing's influence in Pyongyang...
...mail. “They didn’t seem to know what was going on,” she said. “They didn’t know what type of information had been taken.” A UCLA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. The e-mail concluded that UCLA would not try to obtain personal information from any students, and said that under no circumstances should students divulge information to anyone claiming to be from UCLA. Katherine S. Sengoba ’10, a resident of Irvine, Calif., who had considered applying...
...involving the President were an obstacle. KMT candidate Huang Jun-ying, a former university official, made corruption a key issue. But he was stung by election eve accusations of vote-buying by his campaign. Huang denied the allegations and demanded a recount; on Sunday a Kaohsiung court approved the request, meaning it could be months before the final outcome is known. Meanwhile, the political tension will likely continue. "The margin was very narrow," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Taipei-based Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies. "The recount has created uncertainty and the opportunity for political confrontation...