Word: conflictingly
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...conflict is especially hard to swallow given the fact that the Cornell game is one of the few sporting events of the year where the student body does a really good job of filling the seats. We Harvard students can be an apathetic crowd; we’ll go to Harvard-Yale, and we’ll be there for truly special events such as the night game against Brown, but other than that, it’s hard to get us to make the trek across the river. The way it turned out this year...
...violation of international conventions safeguarding the rights of civilians in conflict, the U.S. military made assistance to the wounded virtually impossible. Aside from sealing off a major hospital, American snipers targeted ambulances, maintaining that they carried insurgents. Of course, shootings of ambulances transporting only civilians and doctors were reported regularly. When the Iraqi Minister of Health conveyed his outrage over the policy to Paul Bremer, the then-head of the coalition efforts did not deny, but actually defended, the strategy. As the journalist Dahr Jamail has argued, this constitutes an endorsement of “the very definition of collective...
...Australia is also politically obscure. Why? Because we're so well behaved. We are not the mouse that roared. Historically, we have rarely even contemplated roaring. As former Prime Minister Paul Keating has pointed out, Australia has always been short of the defining value systems that are gained through conflict. We have never had a civil war or a revolution. We have never been invaded--though we nearly were during World War II, by the Japanese. We are piteously short of good political scandals and low on graft. Nobody has ever called us a Great Satan or even a little...
...Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) focused on 88,235 soldiers who were screened twice: first when they returned from Iraq; and second, after three to six months at home. Although reservists had similar battlefield experiences as active-duty troops, they suffered substantially higher rates of depression, interpersonal conflict, suicidal thoughts and post-traumatic stress disorder - a disparity that grew dramatically over time...
...Sunday Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hailed a "remarkable" decline in violence, saying the country may have finally moved beyond the Sunni-Shi'a sectarian conflict. While that level of optimism may be premature, the security situation has improved dramatically in recent months...