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...Strykers--about 5,000 strong, one-quarter the number of troops that Petraeus had at his disposal--dashed about in high-tech armored vehicles. They didn't do any of the local governance that Petraeus had done. They were occupiers, not builders, and put Iraqis in control of civic order. Within months, Mosul descended into chaos. "You win this thing with boots on the ground," a Stryker Brigade officer told a Knight-Ridder reporter in January 2005, "not by throwing more vehicles at the place...
...summed up in three words: real-world citizenship. Perhaps reflecting the pragmatic worldview of the task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, they have taken the focus off of academics and directed it instead towards real-life application and civic duty...
There are ways to cut the odds of being a victim. Never give in to urgent or threatening communications, as I did. (And the jury scam probably won't work if you do your civic duty.) For more tips, go to ftc.gov Some key precautions...
...museum will replace a truck garage, according to Ray Mellone, the chairman of the Allston Civic Association’s Harvard Task Force...
Harvard is “a good distance from having community support,” said Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association. “It’s the first look and people have to figure out what it means for the neighborhood...