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...visit will wipe out those from a previous attempt to bond with troops, which became a public-relations disaster. His flight-suited jaunt in May to an aircraft carrier floating off San Diego--where Bush stood below a banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and declared an end to "major combat operations" in Iraq--seemed brilliant at the time, a powerful image of a triumphant Commander in Chief, a grateful recognition of the armed forces' resolve and an ideal subject for a 30-second campaign spot. But the event was too contrived, Bush's swagger too macho and his message...
...past nine months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been claiming that the combat stage of his "counterterrorist operation" in Chechnya was over. Those claims were further demolished last week when four suicide bombers destroyed a commuter train close to the spa town of Yessentuki in Russia's Stavropol region, some 1,600 km south of Moscow. The attack killed 41 and injured more than 170. Now, the Chechen insurgency is spreading to neighboring regions. Ten hours after the train bombing, rebels fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the FSB security service headquarters in Magas, Ingushetia. The Kremlin hoped to pacify...
With a large AIDS ribbon crafted from red balloons, photos of dying AIDS patients and the screening of an AIDS documentary, a student group at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is seeking to raise awareness and funds to combat the disease...
...issues that affect the world outside Harvard. If a new funding policy excluded activities such as protests, the IOP would miss an opportunity to let Harvard students do more than just learn about politics on an abstract level. Encouraging collective action is one of many valuable ways to combat the apathy that is common not only among students here and at other colleges, but among a whole generation of American youth...
Sophomore guard Mike Beal leads the team in rebounding, but he’s only 6’4. It’s going to be tough to combat the Black Bears’s towering tandem of DuBois (6’9) and forward Mark Flavin (6’10). The pressure will be on junior 6’8 forwards Graham Beatty and Stehle, who are only pulling down a combined eight boards per game, despite being the tallest healthy members of the team...