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What the murder of the four security specialists did reveal is a little known reality about how business is done in war-torn settings all over the globe. With U.S. troops still having to battle insurgents and defend themselves, the job of protecting everyone else in Iraq--from journalists to government contractors to the U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer--is largely being done by private security companies stocked with former soldiers looking for good money and the taste of danger. Pentagon officials count roughly 20 private companies around the world that contract for security work, mainly in combat...
...masculinity, males often put down “deviant” males like metrosexuals. Those men who really diverge from accepted male behavior—homosexual men, for example, who can’t use the “I’m straight” card to defend their masculinity—suffer even more acute discrimination and violence...
...inaugural meeting, there were Jewish (both Orthodox and Reform), Christian and Catholic students, as well as an Atheist student. Members of the small group shared their eagerness to explain their religious beliefs and practices to friends, but their frustrations as well. Many complained that they often felt pressured to defend or justify their lifestyle. The group also discussed their relationship with University chaplains. According to Davis, the group found chaplains “distant and impersonal” and “unable to relate to the issues of curiosity and questioning that college students experience...
...inaugural meeting, there were Jewish (both Orthodox and Reform), Christian and Catholic students, as well as an Atheist student. Members of the small group shared their eagerness to explain their religious beliefs and practices to friends, but their frustrations as well. Many complained that they often felt pressured to defend or justify their lifestyle. The group also discussed their relationship with University chaplains. According to Davis, the group found chaplains “distant and impersonal” and “unable to relate to the issues of curiosity and questioning that college students experience...
...doesn't mess around, either. On the day after Clarke first made his charge on 60 Minutes that before 9/11 the White House had minimized the terrorism threat, it sent out its biggest gun--the Vice President of the United States--to defend its performance. And where did Bush send Cheney to make the response on the most crucial issue of this presidency? There were many respectable forums available. Indeed, the 9/11 commission was holding public hearings down the block and would gladly have interrupted the proceedings for a detailed explanation from the Vice President of why al-Qaeda slipped...