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...current fiscal year for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan--which includes $20 billion in grants to rebuild Iraq--has left even Republicans gasping. As it becomes clear that there will not be a sudden influx of non-American troops into Iraq, the Pentagon is having to extend tours of duty there of regular soldiers and reservists. Bush's travails have invigorated the Democratic Party; all the Democrats running for the White House make criticism of Bush's record in Iraq a part of their pitch. And although few are brave enough to say it, other world leaders...
...Islamic militants hardly address the true threat that is woven into the fabric of Saudi society. The Bush Administration's actions in Iraq were supposed to rewrite U.S. policy in the Middle East, in effect proclaiming that autocratic, patrimonial rule would no longer be tolerated. But will we extend that same message to regimes that accommodate our need for oil? U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East can no longer afford to use soft words and receive token support from countries like Saudi Arabia that benefit our immediate interests but are unwilling to pursue and punish those who pose...
...recent steps taken by HUDS were beneficial. But if there is a serious desire to improve the health of undergraduates, then students, HUDS and administrators will have to develop a plan to significantly extend dinner hours. While an enhanced schedule would require later hours of dining hall workers, higher overtime pay should compensate for having to work later and the hiring of a second shift could accommodate those who want or need to be home earlier. Later dining hall hours are a necessity—and the sooner that is recognized, the better. That much-needed move will stop students...
...Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable—flirting with boys—to the purely satanic bearing a child out of wedlock or being raped by one’s cousin. In reprisal for these transgressions, the nuns of the Laundry subject the women to humiliation, threats of eternal damnation, and pure outright...
Time it took to remedy the situation and extend the mayor a Sears credit line of $4,000: 18 minutes...