George W. Bush

The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator... from Massachusetts. Foreign policy was the dominant theme throughout the election campaign, particularly Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As in the 2000 presidential election, voting controversies and concerns of irregularities emerged during and after the vote. The winner was not determined until the following day, when Kerry decided not to dispute Bush's win in the state of Ohio. The state held enough electoral votes to determine the winner of the presidency. Both Kerry and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have stated their opinion that voting in Ohio did not proceed fairly and that, had it done so, the Democratic ticket might have won that state and therefore the election. However, there was far less controversy about this election than in 2000. Only three states changed allegiance.
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Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive... education programs. It owns Harvard Business School Publishing, which publishes business books, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review. Founded in 1908, HBS started with 59 students. Once it innovated the case method of research and teaching in 1920, HBS ramped up the class size which reached 500 students during the decade. In 1926, the school moved from the Cambridge side of the Charles River to its present location in Allston —hence the custom of faculty and students referring to the rest of Harvard University as "across the river." Women were first admitted to its regular two-year Master in Business Administration program with the Class of 1965. The HBS campus is located in Allston, across the Charles River from the main Harvard campus in Cambridge.
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Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges. Yale was founded in part from funds realized from the sale of Equivalent Lands. The... current residential college system was instituted in 1933 through a grant by Yale graduate Edward S. Harkness, who admired the college systems at Oxford University and Cambridge University. Each college consists of a dormitory building or buildings, surrounding a quadrangle or courtyard. Each college includes a dining hall; student facilities, ranging from libraries to squash courts to darkrooms; and a few faculty, including a Dean, a Master, and two or more Resident Fellows. Most college buildings also features distinctive architecture, and each has developed a different flavor or area of emphasis.
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A general strike was called by the Union of Guadeloupe Workers headed by Elie Domota on January 20th, 2009. Nearly 25,000 workers took to the... streets resulting in petrol stations shuting down along with most shops and most tourists fleeing Guadeloupe proper. The demands of the workers included a $200 euro raise for the lowest workers in Guadeloupe. Nearly 22% of people are currently unemployed and there has been a 20% decrease in market value for all food and general merchandise. . In the early morning of February 18th, 2009 Jacques Bino, aged 50 was shot and killed by maurading youths in the capital of Guadeloupe in Pointe-a-Pitre. Three police officers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire as they came to the assistance of Mr. Bino but he expired before care could be provided. Elsewhere in Baie-Mahult three more police oficers were shot and wounded by rioters. Five shots were fired at security forces in Saint-Rose and several buildings were burnt down. Twenty rioters were arrested because of the incident. The conflict has exposed race and class divisions on the island, where the local white elite wields power over the black majority.
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The European Parliament election of 2009 in Malta was the election of the delegation from Malta to the European Parliament in 2009. The elections... were held on June 6 on the same day as the Maltese local council elections, 2009. The turnout was 78.81%. The Partit Laburista garnered 54.77% of first-count votes and the Partit Nazzjonalista garnered 40.49%; 2.31% of votes cast were invalid. Dr Simon Busuttil MEP was the only candidate to be elected on the first count with 68,782 single votes.
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The Gaza War, known as Operation Cast Lead in Israel and as the Gaza Massacre or the Battle of al-Furqan [the criterion] in Gaza and by Hamas was... a three-week bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israel, and hundreds of rocket attacks on south of Israel which started on December 27, 2008 with a surprise air strike from Israel. Israel's stated aim was to stop rocket fire into Israel and arms import into the Gaza strip. Palestinian groups had been firing rockets "in response to Israeli massacres". Israeli forces attacked police stations, military targets including weapons caches and suspected rocket firing teams and other Hamas government buildings in the opening assault, striking in the densely populated cities of Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah. An Israeli ground invasion began on January 3. Infantry commanders were given an unprecedented level of access to coordinate with air, naval, artillery, intelligence, and combat engineering units during this second phase. Various new technologies and hardware were also introduced. On January 5, IDF forces began operating in the densely populated urban centers of Gaza.
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On November 16, 2008 a special group of the Azerbaijan army crossed the border between forces of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan near the... Ashagi Seyidakhmedli settlement. They tried to gain the rear of the NKR Defense Army units that were on duty. Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic said that "servicemen of NKR Defense Army, while acting resolutely and in full coordination, during a battle of about half-hour long, threw the enemy back to its initial positions". The Azerbaijani side had left one soldier killed on the battlefield, while Karabakh troops suffered no losses. Armenian soldiers who reputed Azerbaijan's attack were awarded medals by the President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan. Orkhan Shamilov's body was left behind by Azeri soldiers and was returned to Azerbaijani side on November 19.
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