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...policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement by Americans is viewed by those brutes as weakness and emboldens them to commit even more horrible acts. If the pro-democracy forces and the West want to avoid a second Vietnam in Iraq, they need to use determination and tactics like massive aerial bombings of terrorist havens. If the terrorists are faced with the prospect of total extermination, they at least might think twice about...
...There is a need for society to...commit ourselves to fundamental, systematic change,” she said...
Children's theaters also have to face the problem of getting past the gatekeepers--parents, teachers, school administrators--to reach their primary audience. Along with weekend shows aimed at family audiences, these theaters subsist on weekday performances for school groups. But getting schools to commit to a field trip to the theater--instead of, say, a day of preparing for standardized tests--is becoming tougher in the age of No Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks...
...26th Middlesex District but suggested Slavitt consider running for city office. He scoffs at the idea of joining a political body he says is “funnier than the Three Stooges,” adding, “I cannot imagine the crime that I would commit of such heinousness that the appropriate punishment would condemn me to serve on the City Council of Cambridge...
...Allston Science and Technology Task Force, charged with considering the future of science at Harvard in light of expansion across the Charles, recommended last May that the University commit to a significant expansion in several fields, including engineering...