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...combat male violence, it is necessary first to highlight it. According to Katz, the media keeps male violence invisible. Newspapers write in the passive voice that “X number of women were raped last year” instead of reporting that “Men raped X number of women last year.” A few years ago, a CBS special on the high school massacre at Columbine addressed the problem of “kids killing kids” when it should have focused on “boys killing boys and girls...
...call. The Pentagon's move this week to reinforce its troop levels in Iraq by delaying the return of some 25,000 troops due to have been cycled out underscores the extent to which new instability in the Shiite south adds to the burden on the already stretched combat resources available to Coalition commanders. The European peacekeepers deployed in the southern towns came to Iraq believing they would be operating in a relatively benign environment, freeing up U.S. forces for counterinsurgency actions in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities in the southern cities has put troops...
...worry has been lacking since Hughes left Bush's side. "This wouldn't be happening if Karen were here," a top G.O.P. adviser to the White House groaned during last year's flap over Bush's flight-suited landing on an aircraft carrier to declare the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq. That example illustrates how Hughes' powers are sometimes exaggerated: she actually helped plan the carrier event and write the President's speech, as she has every major address Bush has delivered since she left Washington. "I was involved," she says. "I'll take the blame, if there...
...louder as earsplitting commercials fill the comparatively quiet interludes that used to prevail during pauses in the action. Also to blame are moves made in Washington more than a generation ago. In 1972, the Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) was created to identify sources of noise and combat them. But in 1981, Congress and the Reagan Administration eliminated ONAC funding, removing one federal blanket that had been thrown over...
...He’s definitely the perfect person to be teaching the class,” says Crespo, who is working with Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, or NOAH, a community development program that is attempting to organize housing committees in neighborhoods in East Boston to combat problems like crime and graffiti...