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...Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center is marked with palm-size red arrows that show the Sunni population being squeezed top and bottom by Shi'ite militia. Coalition efforts to change the minds of disenfranchised Sunnis, Kuehl says, aren't getting much help from the Shi'ite-led government. In the Sunni enclave of Amariyah, for example, his unit spent $180,000 refurbishing the local bank branch so residents could get paid, but the Finance...
...according to the Crimson’s unofficial estimates, less than 8 percent of the more than 80 track athletes at Harvard—men and women combined—are currently African-American. That percentage places Harvard at the bottom of the Ivy League, and it presents rookie head coach Jason Saretsky with an immediate problem...
...Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...
...Arab countries have reason to celebrate these latest findings. Save The Children puts Iraq at the bottom of the list, with a 150% increase in the child mortality rate since 1990. Most alarmingly, the report finds that in 2005 alone about 122,000 Iraqi children died before the age of five, about half of them perishing during their first month of life...
...boats making it to the Grand Finals, it was something we were working toward the entire year,” said senior heavyweight captain Katie Golden. “We feel like Radcliffe had a strong performance overall.” The heavyweights performed well form top to bottom, making a strong pitch for its season to continue. The selection committee will decide on May 15 whether Radcliffe will be part of the 16-boat field for the NCAA Championships in two weeks, or whether its year ended yesterday. After failing to make the NCAAs for the first time...