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...Small contingents of U.S. soldiers enter Karbala and Najaf only for brief visits with local officials these days, and much of the rest of southern Iraq has no American troops at all. Focused on saving Baghdad, U.S. forces keep up a regular presence with patrols and combat outposts chiefly around the southern reaches of the capital. Meanwhile, the drawdown of British forces in Basra - where the troops have relocated to the local airport outside the city - leaves yet another southern city, with a population of roughly 2 million, unattended by the U.S.-led coalition. That means virtually...
...would be if all progress were the result of Crimson op-eds (or better yet, truly rational discourse). Unfortunately, sometimes it takes concrete action to achieve actual results. Yet to Coggins, the opinions of her and her peers, not the wages of Harvard workers or funds raised to combat deadly infections, form the barometer by which success is measured. Narcissism, anyone? SILPA KOVVALI ’10 Cambridge, MA October...
Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s. The one notable exception is the people whose job it is to combat crime on a daily basis - the nation's police officers, who are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than at any time in recent years...
...Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Killing, who trains the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, subscribes to that controversial notion. Grossman relates how officers raiding methamphetamine labs and gang hangouts often find violent video games left behind. "Every time they take down a gang house, there's always one thing that will always be there," Grossman says. "It's a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators...
...Other than giving them more firepower, police departments around the country don't think they have a lot of other bright ideas to combat the recent spike in cop killings. Miami Police Chief Timoney says the most important thing is to make sure officers are staying vigilant and thinking before they act, even when the patrol work becomes seemingly monotonous...