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...also in the psychological reality of it being a volunteer army? Which is something that none of those wars had, so none of those movies dealt with it. To me, those were the two burdens: it had to get to something about the psychology of people who choose to fight, because that's what these guys are - volunteers - and something about the nature of war being a war of bombs as opposed to armies massing on two sides of a hill and fighting over terrain, which is what those other wars were about. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar. The decision, for which conservationists had long been lobbying, could pave the way toward the most wide-ranging protections ever put in place for a major commercial marine species. "This announcement could be a real turning point in the fight to protect the tuna," says Susan Lieberman, director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group and a veteran of the CITES process. "This will help ensure the future of this endangered fish." (See pictures of the tuna trade in Asia...
Over 200 elated gay and lesbian couples waited in line outside Washington, D.C.’s City Courthouse yesterday morning in anticipation of obtaining licenses that would allow them to legally marry their partners. While this is a significant step in the fight for marriage equality nationwide, some members of the Harvard community have questioned D.C.’s ruling in light of the federal Defense of Marriage...
Sean Eldridge, Communications Director at Freedom to Marry, a nationwide campaign for marriage equality that has played a role in the fight in D.C., said that this is an important development in achieving marriage equality...
...everyone is too afraid to stop them." His former colleague, Brigadier Mahmoud Shah, formerly in charge of security for the Northwest Frontier Province, concurs. "It's a twilight zone up there," he says, even in the areas recently cleared of militants. (See TIME's cover story on taking the fight to the Taliban in Afghanistan...