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...That there is an insurgency in Baghdad and in the Sunni triangle to the north is undeniable, but whether the attackers are part of a single coherent political command structure - or even a variety of different structures - remains to be seen. There is certainly a level of professionalism in some of the attacks on U.S. forces, suggesting the involvement of members of Saddam's security forces. But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles. Rumfseld is probably correct in asserting there are a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Get Out of Iraq, the U.S. May Have to Get Deeper In | 7/2/2003 | See Source »

...dissatisfaction among students with the advising system—a problem that Gross and others have said will receive very close attention in the curricular review—but also signaled a potential shift in curricular emphasis toward bodies of knowledge that students would have to be able to command. An attention to teaching “ways of thinking,” rather than discrete knowledge, has served as the bedrock of the Core since its adoption...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Speaks On Curriculum | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...that the U.S. mission had lacked "vision and strategy." Pickering, too, urged Bush to make clear that the current U.S. deployment of some 200,000 troops in and around Iraq would have to be maintained for a long time to come. Or, as General John Abizaid, who will assume command of the Iraq mission from the retiring General Tommy Franks next month, put it in congressional testimony this week, "for the foreseeable future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: When Can We Go Home? | 6/26/2003 | See Source »

...perilous assignment in an Alabama town in the 1930s. He argues his case brilliantly, demolishes the opposition, convinces each member of the movie audience...and loses. But Atticus has shown courage in the fight. As he leaves the courtroom in defeat, a black preacher attending the trial whispers a command to Atticus' 6-year-old daughter. "Miss Jean Louise, stand up," he tells the girl. "Your father's passin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gregory Peck: The American As Noble Man | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...that make gear for outdoor-adventure athletes are booking sales to special-forces units assigned everywhere from Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains to the Philippine jungles. "Private companies are leading in the R. and D. of this stuff," says Colonel Tom Blume, director of procurement for U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, Fla. "We love off-the-shelf items because we don't have to put R. and D. into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troop Chic | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

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