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...display this past weekend against Penn and Princeton. The fast, strong guards of the Quakers kept on his heels all game, holding him to three points in Harvard’s loss, while he scored a team-high 17 in the Crimson’s successful effort to combat Princeton’s matchup zone...
...that could over a very long time keep the program in a fiscal equilibrium without drastically changing the situation of retired or non-retired individuals. But whether or not a new proposal suggests raising the retirement age, the Democrats simply must put forth a well-articulated, feasible plan to combat the temptation to passively accept Bush’s untenable privatization scheme...
...during the '60s floods and now after the tsunami devastation. We'll always be a friend to the U.S. Bandula Sri Amarasekara Colombo, Sri Lanka I was deeply disturbed to read that no warnings about an impending tsunami reached the countries in peril. Humankind needs to work together to combat the unforeseen destructive forces of nature and safeguard the lives of millions. The damage and loss of life could have been minimized to a great extent if governments had been quicker to realize what was coming and had issued warnings. We have to get past the political boundaries that...
...announced that 15,000 troops would leave Iraq, but few believe the Iraqis are yet ready to defend themselves. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers admitted last week that of the 136,000 Iraqi security forces that have so far been trained, only 40,000 are fully combat ready, able to "go anywhere in the country and take on any threat." In Washington, an e-mail making the rounds reminded those U.S. officials heartened by voter turnout in Iraq that in 1967, U.S. officials were heartened by voter turnout in South Vietnam too. Even in Baghdad, the defiant...
...then the Iraqi government will have cause to challenge the direction being pursued by the U.S. in training and assembling those forces. Even in the most optimistic view, which says there are some 125,373 personnel fully or partially trained (the U.S. acknowledges that only about one-third are combat-ready), some 110,577 of those are police, national guard and border patrol units - dedicated primarily to dealing with domestic threats. Right now, according to the U.S. government's own figures, there are only 14,786 Iraqis fully or partially trained to serve in its conventional army. But in order...