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...Setting up a women’s center would not—and indeed, should not—preclude the College from taking further steps to improve women’s experiences at Harvard. From granting tenure to more female professors to continuing to reform its policies on sexual assault, the College has plenty more...
...Even the most pro-U.S. sections of the Iraqi population had been imploring the Coalition to avoid a frontal military assault. The cost of tactical victory could be strategic defeat. Instead, U.S. commanders decided to pursue what they called "an Iraqi solution." The Marines withdrew from their forward positions around Fallujah and handed security control to a newly-minted Iraqi unit led by some of Saddam's former generals, who were given the freedom to recruit their own troops. The result is a force that directly recruited some of the very same insurgents that had battled the Marines...
...Fallujah on April 24, three weeks after four U.S. contractors were killed and their bodies burned and mutilated. In response to that atrocity, military commanders pledged that U.S. forces would bring the killers to justice and take back Fallujah. But the Marines have held back from an all-out assault on the city...
...Marines on the ground trust the Iraqi forces to disarm the insurgents on their own. "If the Iraqi officers hope to get cooperation from the bad guys in Fallujah, it is because they are complicit," says a U.S. officer. Many Marines in the company are aware an assault on the city would have been a bloody affair for both Iraqis and Marines. Some are relieved the attack will not be taking place. But they suspect that in a couple of weeks or a couple of months, they will be sent back to finish the job. "What you saw today...
...film needs battles, and Troy has nearly a dozen of them, employing arrows, spears, great balls of fire rolling down a slope to crush the enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach--like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector--it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This...