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Lebanon on Brink of Collapse
April 6, 2021 |
Emile Nakhleh
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Cipher Brief Expert Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. Nakhleh is currently a Research Professor and Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico.
EXPERT OPINION Lebanon is collapsing economically, politically, and socially. The government is paralyzed, and institutions are in disarray.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The first Albuquerque City Council meeting of the spring was a relatively short one, clocking in at under two hours.
With Council President Cynthia Borrego and Klarissa Peña both absent, the council took final action on just one bill: Councilor Isaac Benton’s proposed moratorium on new residential parking permit areas.
“Residential parking permit area” is the city’s term for places where on-street parking is limited to residents with city-issued permits. Neighborhoods can petition the city for the designation as long as 51% of people living on the affected street support the restrictions.
Until now, the RPPAs were mostly concentrated around the University of New Mexico campus and Downtown. But the city Parking Division recently approved converting two North Valley streets near the Rio Grande bosque, sparking criticism. People who live in the area have complained
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Charlotte Prouse of the University of New Mexico track and field team has been named the Female Track Athlete of the Week after claiming first place in the 3000m steeplechase at the Hayward Premiere in Eugene, Ore.
Prouse crossed the finish line in a time of 9:54.65, which is the No. 1 time in the NCAA this season. Her ability to pull away in the final lap in the race allowed her to cross the finish line over four seconds before any other runner.
Next on the schedule for the Lobos is the Drake Relays, the Don Kirby Tailwind, and the LSU Alumni Gold, tabbed to take place the weekend of April 22-24.
UNM-LA Student Danna Mayer-Llamas Named Coca Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholar
UNM-LA News:
Danna Mayer-Llamas, a student at The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship administered by Phi Theta Kappa (PTK).
Earlier this year, Mayer-Llamas was nominated to the New Mexico PTK All-State Academic Team. PTK is an international honor society that celebrates the academic achievements of students at 2-year schools and provides opportunities for students to grow as scholars and leaders. Students are nominated to the academic team by their college administrators.
Selection is based on academic achievement, leadership, and engagement in college and community service.
By Raphael Kadushin 7 April 2021
One big bubbling stew of flavours, American cuisine has never stopped shifting shape and adding accents, with successive waves of immigrants happily swapping and blending their culinary traditions for centuries. There is, though, one crucial legacy missing from the raucous mix, and that s ironically America s own Indigenous cuisine. Native American food, if it s recognised today at all, usually only materialises on the Thanksgiving table, where it is represented by a token squash or a pumpkin centrepiece. America s colonisers simply erased Native culture from the story of the Americas
How did such a rich heritage go missing? Blame it, said Dr Lois Ellen Frank, a Santa Fe-based chef, author and food historian, on a simple and increasingly familiar story. History of course is always told from a specific perspective, she said. And America s colonisers simply erased Native culture from the story of the Americas. If we told the tal