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According to Walsh and UMass coach Mike Stone, the driving factors appear to be financial. The draw of the local teams and the tradition of the Beanpot seemed to be insufficient to offset the cost of the security and gate personnel required to staff the ballpark...
...Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict, from Korea to Afghanistan, most notably for Esquire magazine. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God! We Hit a Little Girl," an unflinching account of an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After he interviewed Lieut. William Calley, who was convicted of killing civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to hand over his notes...
...themselves in the face of a furious public reaction, and they've done so mostly by distancing themselves from the Americans. Even more worrying for the U.S. is the fact that many of the Iraqi security forces that Washington had hoped would increasingly share the security burden in Iraq appear to have felt a similar impulse to distance themselves from U.S. operations - most graphically when a battalion of Iraqi soldiers refused orders to go to Fallujah, returning to their barracks rather than fight against fellow Iraqis. And when Iraqi police were confronted by Sadr supporters at towns in the south...
...clear plan for responding to a growing political crisis in Iraq whose scale it has been reluctant to acknowledge. Thus the rather unusual comment by President Bush on Sunday that the U.S. is "open to suggestions" on ways of reducing violence in Iraq. Iraqis on the Governing Council appear to have stepped forward with solutions of their own, negotiating cease-fires both in Fallujah and also with the Sadrists in the South. Seven members of the IGC reportedly met Moqtada Sadr in Najaf at the weekend and secured an agreement under which his forces would withdraw from police stations...
...Unlike their patron, a number of IGC members appear to recognize the Sunni insurgents and the Sadr supporters as an intractable reality - they're rooted in sections of Iraqi society, and won't be eliminated simply through military action. The dilemma facing U.S. officials on the ground is likely to become even more acute in the coming days given the efforts of IGC members to mediate solutions both in Fallujah and in the south. If the U.S. declines to accept those outcomes - which are not exactly palatable to the U.S. given its stated objectives in each case - the result will...