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...some focus from a country-and an Administration-that is largely awol on Iraq. Webb is consumed by the war, in part because his son Jimmy is a Marine lance corporal deployed in Ramadi, in al-Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni insurgency. He has worn Jimmy's combat boots every step of the way in this campaign, and last week he told me quietly, "Last I heard, Jimmy's unit was about to sweep one of Ramadi's toughest neighborhoods...
...transfer from Baghdad to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. They then joined my friends and sister Leslie Flesch in lobbying to get acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee to admit me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, making me the first reporter wounded in combat known to have received such treatment at the premier hospital reserved for soldiers...
Doctors were as hard-pressed to treat phantom pain as they were to explain it. They resorted to trial and error, using remedies originally intended for other ailments that seemed to relieve nerve pain. I had a sampling on my nightstand: pills to combat seizures and depression, lozenges for bronchitis, allergy nasal spray, arthritis cream, medicated patches for shingles and an electro-stimulation device. It was hard to tell if any of them worked. The crushing, stabbing pain in my right hand flared and subsided--but never went away. Doctors said it might last a month, a year...
This hard stance comes at the same time as BPD’s “Operation Student Shield,” introduced in 2005 specifically to combat underage drinking in Boston. And if BPD’s experience with Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern University are any indication, students can expect harsher enforcement as Harvard expands undergraduate housing into Allston. We hope instead that BPD will reconsider its methods, and keep safety as its priority even while it must continue to enforce drinking laws...
...clumped together as “the media,” Bush does not think in the short term. For him, the war on terror is “intergenerational,” and he sees himself as setting up the procedures and systems necessary for future presidents to combat Islamic extremism.In his Sept. 14 column in the New York Times David Brooks tried to piece together something of an explanation for Bush’s seeming obsession with the longue duree (and his failure in implementing his own vision). According to Brooks, Bush has been influenced largely...