On the heels of federal funding denials, the program coordinator for the Campus Center on Violence Against Women recently resigned.

During the summer, the center applied for additional federal funding for the future, and the grant manager at the Department of Justice notified the center that they would be refunded, she said. Members of the center then found out they weren't going to be funded because of factors like the geographical location of the center, she said.

The grant is competitive, so the denial of the grant to the center was not about the center's performance, Harwell said.

"We are at a moment in the program where we need the university to assume complete responsibility for it and place it in the framework of the part of the university where it can have the most impact on students' lives," Harwell said.

The center has funding through June 2009, Harwell said.

Source: http://media.www.huntington-news.com/media/storage/paper600/news/2008/11/24/News/Campus.Center.Loses.Funding-3559577.shtml

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The president of Guinea-Bissau survived an apparent coup attempt yesterday, emerging from his bullet-scarred home hours after his guards repelled mutinous soldiers. He said the soldiers wanted to kill him.

President Joao Bernardo Vieira hid in a room in his heavily fortified home while security forces turned back the soldiers in a three-hour gun battle, Interior Minister Cipriano Cassama said. The attack had begun with heavy artillery fire on Vieira's home shortly after midnight.

Vieira and his wife were unhurt, but at least one of his guards died and several others were injured, Cassama said.

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2008/11/24/coup_attempt_fails_in_guinea_bissau/

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President-elect Barack Obama announced his economic team earlier this afternoon.

Obama has tapped New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as treasury secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.

University of California-Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer has been chosen to be the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Obama also announced Melody Barnes as director of the Domestic Policy Council and Heather Higginbottom as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/24/transition.wrap/index.html