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KANSAS CITY, MO–(Marketwire – July 21, 2009) – Grantham University ( www.grantham.edu ), an online university serving working adult students around the world, today announced Commander (Ret) Everett Alvarez, Jr., distinguished Naval officer, lawyer, author, entrepreneur and former government executive, has joined its Board of Governors. Commander Alvarez is best known to the public as the …

Google Watch points out a job posting on the Google site for “ Privacy Policy Counsel ” based in Washington, DC. Given that Google is under much more pressure and scrutiny from the US Department of Justice these days, this kind of hire makes sense.

Witness says soldiers in NCO positions often did not have enough tactical or technical knowledge, let alone training, to lead serious military units.

Amnesty International fears the wave of arrests of civil society activists in Iran is intensifying after lawyer and human rights activist, Shadi Sadr, was violently arrested in Tehran this morning on her way to Friday prayers.

A man suspected of murdering a gay man in a street attack in Washington, D.C., last year pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and avoided substantial jail time, reports WLJA-TV.

Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations – Question and Answer Session Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 15, 2009 MR. HAASS: Well, thank you for delivering a truly comprehensive talk that was broad and deep. So really, thank you for that, and for doing it here. I’m going to go straight to our membership and let them ask some questions. I ask them …

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Steele will outline a unifying set of core Republican principles for health care reform, spelling out what Republicans are for and what they are against while seeking to correct common myths about what President Obama claims his health care plan would do for ordinary Americans.

An article says that total insurance claims for the commuter train accident may hurt the bottom lines of multiple insurers.

Morning all. Here’s a question: Would Marion Barry ’s problems go away if he’d just keep his mouth shut? Consider these intemperate comments to WaPo : ‘Barry said in an interview that the people criticizing him don’t understand how things work in the District.

A woman accused of killing her four daughters told police in an interview that the girls were possessed by demons and that she got rid of most of the family’s possessions to contain the evil spirits.