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...part about Harvard: Chocolate milk at every meal. Describe yourself in three words: World’s deadliest snake. In 15 minutes you are: Watching Jeepers Creepers 2 on VHS while I cut my toenails. In 15 years you are: Designing and selling genetically engineered exotic species. My laboratory compound is on some craggy rocks next to the sea. Don’t just stroll up—it’s booby-trapped...
...short drive from the road that serves as a dividing line between Ghazaliyah's Sunni and Shi'a communities. Moved from its home at Camp Liberty, one of the bases within the sprawling American compound at the airport, Charlie Company fortified a row of houses with concrete, razor wire and plenty of firepower. The COP is the first test of the counter-insurgency strategy the military plans to implement across Baghdad. Part of the plan hinges on quicker response time and constant interactions with residents. The thinking goes: with no room to fight and fewer chances to intimidate civilians...
...attack on the COP would send a powerful message, and Charlie Company has redoubled its effort to secure the compound. On Wednesday night a platoon sergeant taped "CCP" in giant red letters to a wall in one of the COP's main rooms. "CCP" indicates a casualty collection point, where wounded soldiers would be gathered for treatment and possible evacuation. "I think I'm a big, fat target right now," Peterson said...
...expected to pay their children’s Harvard tuition. Even though the proposal’s $7.3 billion increase affects aid programs other than Pell Grants, experts and financial aid providers said they were still concerned that the nation’s rising tuition will compound the effects of cutting financial aid programs. “We are strongly supportive of the Pell Grant increase, but we have real concerns about paying for it by reducing other financial aid,” said Barry Toiv, who is the director of communications for the Association of American Universities...
...using the imported EFPs. The intelligence analyst at the briefing said there was no involvement by the Iraqi government at any level. But as proof of Iranian meddling in Iraq the briefing cited a raid in which weapons, maps, inventory sheets and two Iranian agents were seized at the compound of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Hakim heads the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the largest party in Iraq's governing coalition...