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...intuition tells me that logistical challenges arising from the overwhelming distance to the Quad and to Allston would cause the deans to defend their perch in the Yard. Yet if neither is good enough for our administrators, why should either be good enough for our student groups...
...question is exactly what triggered this battle and who fought it. Sunni community leaders claim that local residents grabbed whatever weapons they had to defend their homes from a sectarian attack by Shi'ite militias in government uniforms. They say night guards, akin to an armed neighborhood watch, fired back at roaming gunmen strafing them as they stood watch. However, American officers say the men they ended up fighting weren't mere homeowners. They used the fire and movement techniques of trained soldiers. "These guys who stood and fought were not just neighborhood types," says Markos, a steely artillery officer...
...Marwan and his cell arrived in the afternoon of the first day's fighting, he says, but there was a lull while they waited for a counterattack that night. His job was to help defend the Abu Hanifa mosque, he says, and when combat resumed the next morning that's what he did. "We heard they were coming," he says of the Iraqi troops, "so we took our positions and started shooting at them from near the mosque. We used PKC [machine guns], RPGs, grenades, everything." The men of the 101st Airborne's MiTT have no reason to doubt...
...Democrats have missed an opportunity to make the point that they don?t tolerate corruption. During the House banking scandal in 1994, Newt Gingrich went after Republican check kiters aggressively in an attempt to regain credibility. This time around, the Democrats have chosen to defend Mollohan, rather than hang him out to dry. Pelosi says she has the "highest regard" for Mollohan. And even though party leaders had to push him out quietly behind the scenes, they're supporting the charade that he stepped down...
...seemed like old times last week when Philip Ruddock stepped forward to defend Australia's immigration stance. Five years ago, as Immigration Minister, he steered into law the so-called Pacific Solution to discourage boatloads of asylum seekers. Now, as acting Immigration Minister, he was championing the latest version of that policy against criticism from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Australia was doing nothing wrong, he insisted. Under the new measures, revealed last month, it "will meet its international refugee protection obligations...