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Already, the calls for new troops have opened up rifts between member states over the conduct of operations in Afghanistan and the proper role of force in the U.S.-led "war on terrorism." And hidden in those rifts are yet other questions: about the capability of some of Europe's armed forces, and even the future of the alliance itself. Australia's Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon complained in February of a complete "lack of common objectives" among the NATO allies. "Someone needs to read the riot act to NATO," fumes retired U.S. General Anthony Zinni, the former U.S. central command...
...diminishing power supply means the Ulysses mission ends on March 30, but the textbook rewrites will go on as fresh ships continue to take the place of old ones. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which will launch later this year, will conduct the most comprehensive surveys of the moon the U.S. has ever attempted, using cameras that can spot an object as small as a football. The mission will help scout for landing sites, as NASA is holding fast to its plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. LRO will also hunt for signs of water...
...committee will meet for the first time this morning and on alternate Wednesdays afterward for the remainder of the semester and likely into the fall, according to Dowling. Dowling said he and UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 are also planning to conduct an internal review of the UC this summer. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...judge decided to ignore any claims of bad conduct made by either party on the ground that such claims were irrelevant. Still, many of the claims and counter-claims about what Bennett calls "a campaign of harassment and vilification" that Mills and McCartney each accused the other of waging are detailed in his judgment, with murky tales of telephone tapping and private court documents being leaked to the media. These claims are likely to be hashed over in detail during separate libel actions relating to stories based on such leaks...
...book makes a case for how the United States might responsibly conduct nation building in Iraq—or elsewhere...