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...other motion, presented by Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69, moves to delay concentration choice until after the third term while requiring students to meet with at least one concentration advisor by the end of freshman year...
...loco parentis to educate not only students minds but also their bodies and souls. There are still vestiges of this mentality left. The College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board bitterly complained, although it is now heralded...
...power, Sunnis allege, he began remaking the paramilitary National Police into Shi'ite shock troops. A member of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Jabr fled to Iran in the 1970s to avoid Saddam's crackdown. Jerry Burke, a former civilian senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Jabr's experience with Saddam's government has left him bitter and distrustful of anyone he suspects has ties to the previous regime. That would most certainly include the former members of Saddam Hussein's Special Forces and Republican Guards which initially made...
...nine brigades, with about 17,500 members divided between the Special Police Commandos, the Public Order brigades and a mechanized brigade, which will soon be transferred to the Ministry of Defense. "Leadership in the commando positions has been turned over to Badr," said Matt Sherman, a former CPA advisor to the Interior Ministry. "And new recruits are mostly Badr...
...Like so many things in Iraq right now, it wasn't supposed to be this way. As far back as December 2003, David Gompert, the former National Security Advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority, realized the dangers sectarian militias posed to Iraq's stability. And in the waning days of the Coalition Provisional Authority, American viceroy L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer issued Order 91, which was intended to demobilize or integrate nine militias totaling about 100,000 men into the Iraqi security forces. But the Kurdish pesh merga and the armed wing of SCIRI, the Badr Organization, still exist today because...