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...before the evening was out, they agreed to a Flags co-production, with Eastwood directing. Shortly thereafter, the project began to elicit an uncommon, almost obsessive, interest from its director. He has not often attempted fact-based movies, and he had never undertaken one that contained such huge combat scenes. He began to read more widely and deeply on the subject. And he began talking to both American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima, which remains the bloodiest engagement in Marine Corps history and the one for which the most Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded...
...insurgents go where the presence isn't," he said. The U.S. military plans to go into towns where the insurgency has been active, secure them and establish "firm bases" in each one manned by U.S. and Iraqi troops. The plan, said Col. Stephen Davis, commander of the Regimental Combat Team-2, which is directing this battle, is to deny the insurgents the ability to create sanctuaries, such as they had done in Fallujah before November 2004. This is the "ink-spot" theory of counterinsurgency that has been gaining traction in recent months-the U.S. takes an area with overwhelming force...
...panic is the enemy of good preparation. Hoarding antivirals?which may not even be that effective in the event of a pandemic?reduces the availability of the drugs at a time when supplies are already limited, and could result in more people dying of normal flu this season. To combat hoarding, Roche, the company that makes Tamiflu, recently suspended shipments to private suppliers in several countries. Closing borders in the case of a pandemic would not only be ineffective?unlike SARS, flu is too contagious to be contained?but would also prove economically disastrous in a deeply interconnected world. "Panic...
...industry-sponsored dinners at restaurants. The American Medical Association limits gift value to around $100 per gift and stipulates that all gifts, such as informational dinners and free drug samples, should benefit patients. Dr. Bob Goodman, a New York City internist who founded No Free Lunch in 1999 to combat the practice of accepting gifts, says doctors should push back harder. "Gifts are gifts. Whether they benefit patients or not, they're just freeing physicians' other income" in a way that creates indebtedness, he says...
...some aspects of America’s current foreign policy. During the question-and-answer period that followed the one-hour talk, an audience member asked why, given the U.S.’ vulnerability to a nuclear attack, the nation hadn’t taken more concrete steps to combat the threat. “I don’t think we get it, and I think it will take many years,” Perry said. He said he supported the invasion of Afghanistan but does not support the Iraq War, since Iraq did not have a nuclear program...