LITTLE ROCK — Abolfazl Hassani, senior education official for Iran, said the Islamic nation has imposed new restrictions on 12 university social sciences deemed to be based on Western schools of thought, including law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science, women’s studies and human rights.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, 55, once criticized by President Barack Obama for taking too long to toughen regulation of offshore oil and natural-gas drilling, said he expects to keep his job after the midterm elections.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., said in an online chat with his Twitter followers that he expects to write “a book or two,” maybe an autobiography, once he leaves office in January.
Guy Alloway, superintendent of the school district in Spavinaw, Okla., said the pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school was on the verge of closing and “$60,000 in the hole” before country legend Reba McEntire, 55, covered the bill.
John Kwiatkowski, 36, of Amsterdam, N.Y., was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration after police said he helped a missing girl run away and then helped hand out fliers during the four-day search for her.
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was sworn in as the new prime minister of Barbados after Prime Minister David Thompson, 48, who ran the Caribbean nation of 270,000 people since January 2008, died after struggling most of the year to beat pancreatic cancer.
President Malam Bacai Sanha, 63, of Guinea-Bissau fell ill and was transferred out of the tiny West African nation to a hospital in Dakar, Senegal, suffering from an illness that a government spokesman declined to disclose.
Bill McCollum, attorney general of Florida, effectively ended the only law in the United States prohibiting homosexuals from adopting by announcing his decision not to appeal a lower court ruling nullifying the state’s 33-year-old ban.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 53, of Alaska “absolutely” plans to caucus with the Republicans if she wins her write-in re-election campaign over GOP candidate and Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, a spokesman said.
Joseph Maverick, 27, a former Army soldier, was convicted of leaving the scene of a Tucson, Ariz., crash that severed the arm of an Air Force military police officer and of tampering with evidence by throwing the arm in a trash bin.
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