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...Coalition’s priorities was defeating Saddam’s army, while keeping American and civilian casualties to a minimum. Once forces entered Baghdad, military planners had to contend with the threat of chemical or biological strikes and the promise that an army of suicide bombers would defend the city to the last man. These concerns, along with the responsibility of bringing food and water to desperate Iraqi civilians rightfully eclipsed the preservation of cultural objects...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Philistine Forces | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...learn a lesson from Iraq. The latest escalations suggests he may have done so, although not the lesson that U.S. officials had in mind. Only last week, a statement from North Korea's foreign ministry noted: "The Iraqi war teaches a lesson that in order to prevent war and defend the security of a country and the sovereignty of a nation, it is necessary to have a powerful deterrent force only." And mixed signals emanating from the Bush administration may have reinforced that conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Planning a Nuke Test? | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

Speculation was rife that his resignation was close, prompting the State Department to defend him in public, and Blackwill remained in his post a year longer...

Author: By William C. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ambassador to India To Rejoin KSG Faculty | 4/23/2003 | See Source »

...free market, nothing sparks excellence like competition. Substandard products get weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: A Lesson in Monopoly | 4/22/2003 | See Source »

...They were always moving,” freshman goaltender Kristin Demorest said. “When they passed and when they caught, they were always moving their feet, which made them very hard to defend...

Author: By James Sigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Lax Falls Behind 7-0, Mauled By Tigers | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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