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Unlike with other concentrations, a WGS concentrator must constantly defend the legitimacy of his or her studies. The ubiquitous misconception on campus is that WGS is “a polemical discipline, that it is politically driven in a way that other disciplines aren’t,” said Jennifer C. Nash ’01, who graduated with a Women’s Studies degree and served as a teaching fellow for the Committee from 2003 to 2004. Many administrators also don’t recognize that WGS is promoting scholarship and debate rather than a particular...
...knows yet whether the giddiness that accompanied the election will itself prove a trick, an illusory respite from the daily jolts of bombs, mortar rounds and kidnappings. The Pentagon announced that 15,000 troops would leave Iraq, but few believe the Iraqis are yet ready to defend themselves. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers admitted last week that of the 136,000 Iraqi security forces that have so far been trained, only 40,000 are fully combat ready, able to "go anywhere in the country and take on any threat." In Washington, an e-mail making the rounds...
...benchmark for U.S. withdrawal is the capacity of Iraqi security forces to defend the country, then the Iraqi government will have cause to challenge the direction being pursued by the U.S. in training and assembling those forces. Even in the most optimistic view, which says there are some 125,373 personnel fully or partially trained (the U.S. acknowledges that only about one-third are combat-ready), some 110,577 of those are police, national guard and border patrol units - dedicated primarily to dealing with domestic threats. Right now, according to the U.S. government's own figures, there are only...
...also possible now that armed Shi'ite militias-members of the Badr Brigade, for example, who have been providing local security throughout the south-may be more willing to be reorganized and retrained to defend a central government that Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani has blessed. That may be too optimistic, especially in a country where pessimism usually equals reality but, at long last, it is not unthinkable...
...into skiing's world championships, which run through Feb. 13 in Bormio, Italy, the talented racer still leads the field in the overall World Cup Standings. In Bormio, he is the most serious threat to take a medal in each of the four racing disciplines and a favorite to defend the three medals he won at the last championships two years ago. On Saturday he opened the competition with an electrifying victory by a 0.14 sec. margin in the Super G. He is also, arguably, the most exciting skier to watch. "Bode Miller walks out the door...