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...Colonel H.R. McMaster, of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tal Afar, realized that successful stabilization is based largely on the ability of U.S. troops to build affiliation with the Iraqi people. He implemented a new training program in Colorado, where soldiers conducted house-search scenarios and only obtained desired information after sitting down with occupants, drinking tea together, and asking culturally respectful questions. McMaster credits his strong and productive relations with local leaders in Iraq to this appreciative mentality, which he urged his brigade to adopt...
...McMaster’s regiment stayed in Tal Afar for nine months, long enough to build affiliations with the local people. This strategy proved much more successful than basing troops for short stints in cities where neither they nor the local people were familiar with each other. When McMaster’s regiment was designated to leave Tal Afar, the Mayor of Tal Afar wrote a letter requesting that the regiment stay another year. The mayor spoke highly of McMaster and his squadron commander, Lt. Colonel Chris Hickey, whom the mayor said knew the names of his children. These...
...your peers in Harvard Yard at 2:30pm to express your rejection of this war and hope for peace. Let us remember the hundreds of thousands who have died. And in this remembrance, let us not find fuel for vengeance, but rather the inspiration to work together to a build a world of greater peace. No greater monument to the sacrifice of our peers is possible than a world in which we shall not feel compelled to send our own children to kill others’ children for the sake of crude greed and old lies...
...After years of elaborate Lego, K’nex and Construx Deluxe projects, Tabaré A. Gowen ’10 knew he liked to build. In fact, his passion was such that before arriving at Harvard in the fall of 2006, he had already constructed for himself a future in engineering...
...Harvard Business School, and a Goldman Sachs internship lined up for the summer. Pencz is also among the troop of undergraduates who heads down Mass Ave a few days a week for accounting courses at MIT. It’s this idea of using time outside the classroom to build the skills necessary to break into finance that has given birth to popular extracurricular groups like Women in Business, Harvard Pre-Medical Society, and Harvard College Law Society...