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...probably the best of the bunch. In “Awaiting Orders,” a sergeant meets the sister and son of one of his soldiers who has shipped out for Iraq. Although the sergeant is “no longer able to imagine himself as a civilian??the formlessness of that life, the endless petty choices to be made”—he begins to speculate about the value of family.Without even the slightest political or philosophical twang, Wolff evokes the question of what war means on the homefront today. A hundred and fifty...
...private police forces. But the pertinent distinction in this matter should not rest on who signs a police officer’s paychecks. Instead, the pertinent distinction should separate those who are deputized with state police powers from those who are not. From the vantage point of any local civilian??be it a Harvard student or a Cambridge resident—there is simply no practical difference between a HUPD officer and a Cambridge police officer. Both are vested with the power to make arrests and execute search warrants, among other things. That the HUPD should retain these...
...even more shocking note, Dershowitz maintains that “there is no evidence that Israeli soldiers deliberately killed even a single civilian?? in Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002. Yet, Human Rights Watch reports that of the “twenty-two civilian killings” during the Israeli siege of Jenin, “Many of them were killed willfully or unlawfully, and in some cases constituted war crimes. Fifty-seven-year-old Kamal Zghair, a wheelchair-bound man, was shot and then run over by IDF tanks on April...
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