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...moment. Ignoring the fact that the United Nations is trying to muscle in on post-war control, U.K. International Development Secretary Clare Short has questioned the legality of the U.S. to rebuild Iraq.” The Bush administration does not want to see any other finger in the pot of the rebuilding process, not even a British one or that...

Author: By David W. Huebner, | Title: Transatlantic Turmoil | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard thought it could get away with the corroboration rule. It hedged its bets, raised its finger to the political wind and said, ‘We can get away with this, because women aren’t noisy enough to do what the Living Wage campaign protesters did,’” says Wendy Murphy, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School who is handling the Office of Civil Rights complaint filed against the University earlier this year. “Harvard’s not stupid. I don’t want to make them sound...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black and White and Crimson All Over: Part 2 | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...Chris Hughes called on his TOWs to silence the enemy guns. The TOW is a wire guided anti-tank missile with a powerful blast, and those available to LTC Hughes' forces are fitted with the new ITAS sites that allow the user to see an enemy's trigger finger 3,000 meters away in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing An Najaf (Part 2) | 4/1/2003 | See Source »

...Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound, torn knee ligaments, an eye glued shut with blood, and other injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Burden | 3/28/2003 | See Source »

...return my phone call-suggests to me that they see this as a convenient way for allowing the commission to fail," said Push. "They've never wanted the commission and I feel the White House has always been looking for a way to kill it without having their finger on the murder weapon." Push said the White House has ignored his phone calls and emails for weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9-11 Commission Funding Woes | 3/26/2003 | See Source »

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