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...planning for the "surge" of 21,500 troops now being added to U.S. forces in Iraq, there already are reports that the military is developing a Plan B if the surge strategy fails. According to Monday's Los Angeles Times, Pentagon officials are weighing the wisdom of pulling out combat forces and relying more on the training of Iraqi forces to extricate U.S. troops from Iraq. It could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved...
...party-grant system, which begins this weekend, funds food and non-alcoholic beverages at parties. The system helps foster creative social options that don’t necessarily revolve around alcohol, said DAPA Talya J. Brettler ’08. Harvard has also engaged with the local community to combat underage drinking. Harvard has representatives on the Cambridge Licensee Advisory Board and is involved with the Cambridge Prevention Coalition, which “offers training to clerks and managers and owners to prevent underage sales or serving minors,” Travia said. Still, underage drinking remains a reality...
Afghan warlord and opium cultivator Haji Bashar Noorzai could be an intelligence source the U.S. needs to combat terrorism, but he's sitting in jail on drug charges. He has offered to help, and as the wars on both drugs and terrorism rage on, readers debated the wisdom of his incarceration...
Ideas for a spot called "The World Without America," designed to combat the "rampant anti-Americanism" that Doughty Street says has taken hold in Britain, included a closing shot of the Statue of Liberty swathed in a burqa. The winning entry is based on mocked-up newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original...
...society, and then the individualistic aims that the group wishes to accomplish.” The best way to resolve the paradox is not to deny the first condition, which only creates a weak foundation at best for the second—rather, the key to change is to combat the problem where it manifests itself, thus taking apart the construction piece by piece...