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...from everyday objects--cars, oilcans, dead animals, even human beings--refashioned into deadly bombs. "It's relentless," says a Marine who was deployed in al-Anbar province, which includes violent hotbeds like Ramadi and Fallujah. "From the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, you're in danger." The life-threatening character of the daily job steadily erodes an individual's psychological immune system...
...leaving not because I'm unhappy or mad about the Congress. I've been here 32 years in the House and Senate, and I've enjoyed every single minute of it. Some minutes I've enjoyed more than other minutes. But I think that there is a danger that has come upon the system, where we are running a risk of not being in control of our own destiny as a Congress. There are so many outside forces that try to dictate to us what we do, when we do it, and how we'll do it. There are groups...
...general, but he had special plans for the agency's storied clandestine services branch, the supersecret Directorate of Operations (D.O.), which runs covert spies and schemes all over the world. Last June, while Goss was chairman, the House Intelligence Committee wrote a report that said the D.O. was in danger of becoming "nothing more than a stilted bureaucracy incapable of even the slightest bit of success. The nimble, flexible, core mission-oriented enterprise that D.O. once was is becoming just a fleeting memory...
...March 2003 [Nov. 8]: If you were planning a war and you knew where the enemy's munitions dumps were, wouldn't you send a missile or two right off the bat to destroy the enemy's fighting capabilities? The International Atomic Energy Agency alerted U.S. officials about the dangerous weapons at al-Qaqaa in January 2003. The proper question isn't, When did the arms disappear? The question is, Why weren't they marked for destruction before our troops started moving up the road toward them? I always thought disrupting the enemy's supply chain - especially its weaponry...
...then—ambulances have shattered the early morning quiet with sirens blaring, rushing to take another drunken freshman to UHS. For many inexperienced first-years, these weekends are their first with ready access to alcohol. Thankfully no freshman has suffered permanent injury from alcohol this year, but the danger still looms, especially in the face of high-risk events such as Harvard-Yale. The College needs to make significant changes to encourage alcohol education and the Class of 2008 needs to see these changes...