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...were you taken hostage? The area is a battlefield, so the Iraqis there stay at home. If an outsider walks around, he stands out. Also, a Japanese who is carrying a camera is most likely suspected of being a spy. The group that first took us was probably a local vigilante group, but on the second day we were handed over to a group of militiamen. They said they were attacking the Americans. They were mujahedin...
Decked out with pins and stickers supporting a slew of candidates—badges of honor earned from hours of work on the campaign battlefield, even if spent supporting casualties of the primary season—students came to the conference from colleges across the state, including Boston College, MIT, Smith College, UMass-Amherst, Wellesley and Tufts...
...next September, the landscape of the curricular review may turn into a battlefield...
...resistance by insurgents at Fallujah and Sadr supporters in the south lacks the ability to challenge the U.S. military in a tactical sense - the Pentagon can be pretty sure of winning any battlefield engagement that presents itself in Iraq. But the military also appears to be without political progress, they'll have to fight the same battles again and again. And in the classic dynamic of occupation, insurgency and counterinsurgency, the past week has served as a reminder that fighting those battles always raises the risk of losing the peace by turning even Iraqis who don't support the radicals...
...game makers have tended to avoid the swampy waters of America's painfully controversial conflict. But Battlefield Vietnam (Electronic Arts; $39.95) wades right in with the most harrowing historical multiplayer game yet created. Playing it feels like wandering onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city...