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Occasionally, the constant flow of Iraqi prisoners through U.S.-run prisons in Iraq yields leads about Maupin's whereabouts. According to U.S. military officers in Iraq, an Iraqi detainee recently led U.S. forces to the shallow grave of William Bradley, a civilian killed in the assault on Maupin's convoy. The detainee also fingered a gang in his village of Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, as the men involved in the attack in which Maupin went missing. In the first week of January, U.S. and Iraqi special forces raided the village, seized eight suspects--one of whom...
Wednesday, February 16. Grave of the Fireflies. 8 P.M. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
...over lunch. “Attractive, single, and sane. In my experience, you can find Harvard women that are two of those things, but not all three.” I had not expected the meal—a quick one after class—to take such a grave turn. But I was more shocked by his abruptness than by what he was saying. In the last three years, I have often found myself the unlikely confidante of a battery of frustrated boys. Man, they tell me over and over again, Harvard girls are so lame...
...Once the talks resume, progress can be made only if the U.S. relaxes its posture and begins to view North Korea not as a grave threat to world peace, but as what it truly is: an impoverished, paranoid, deeply misguided dictatorship. Interestingly, accepting North Korea as an established nuclear power may not be a bad idea in that it will give the country some self-respect. As for agreement on the tough issue of a nuclear inspection regime, that must await improvement in Washington-Pyongyang relations. But so long as North Korea does not precipitate a crisis by selling...
Assomewhatofatwixtermyself, I assure you that our situation is hardly grave. In fact, our parents could perhaps look to us for guidance. Half our parents are divorced, have financial problems or are stuck in jobs they loathe. Instead of making it seem as if we twixters are spoiled brats, why not praise us as a generation that refuses to fall into the same archaic conventions that have led to so many dysfunctional families? My contemporaries and I don't feel compelled to marry by age 25 and bear children by 27, and we shouldn't have...