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...some extent, it seems, U.S. psychological operations were effective. By dropping leaflets on Iraqi positions and calling and e-mailing commanders, the U.S. tried to convince Iraq's military that it was in their interest not to put up a fight. "As we had access to leaders, we spoke with them and said, 'You need to make a choice here,'" says U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, chief spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. "Those that made the choices will have an opportunity to live another day. Those who did not did not survive the operations...
There is reason to suspect that Chinese health authorities are continuing to cover up the extent of the crisis. Government sources told TIME that the country's leaders are so terrified of a SARS outbreak in Shanghai, the country's densely packed commercial center, that they have ordered bureaucrats there to preserve the city's "SARS-free" reputation at any cost. "All I have been told is that we must maintain the image of Shanghai as a place without a SARS problem," says a Shanghai health official. The government admitted to two confirmed and 15 suspected cases in the city...
...patients had been loaded into ambulances and driven around until the inspectors left (TIME, April 28). Hannah Beech, our Shanghai bureau chief, discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff members were instructed to hide the extent of the epidemic. Many others contributed to the extraordinary reporting effort, including Beijing bureau chief Matthew Forney, Shanghai bureau assistant Bu Hua and Neil Gough and Bryan Walsh in Hong Kong...
...some extent [Lewis’] willingness to respect us as a representative body and to discuss his decisions with us has given the U.C. more legitimacy,” says Matthew W. Mahan ’05, chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee...
...responding to this claim, I’ll first note that House spirit, to whatever extent it still exists, is by now a piddling remnant of what it (supposedly) was during the halcyon days of pre-randomization, when Houses had a certain character cultivated by their masters...