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Venturing as far as Kendall Square, The Blue Room has a private dining room that seats up to 50 people. The Blue Room is on the ground floor of a renovated factory and, according to owner Nick Zappia, it sports a “romantic, casual but upscale” feel. It’s available Sunday through Thursday with a $1000 minimum and Friday for $2500. Appointed in warm colors and featuring a large wood grill in the open kitchen, The Blue Room is the perfect place for a cozy winter dinner party...
...Ground Zero got all set to throw a party on Saturday night, and rocked out until...12:30 a.m. Way to use that super-party grant, guys...
...prepare plans for a one-year surge in Iraq. Commit to destruction of the insurgent forces in Ramadi, Hit and the other Anbar strongholds... whatever it takes. Reinforce key cities like Baghdad and Basra. The best guess is that this will require 20,000 more U.S. troops on the ground. The U.S. military should rapidly increase the number of U.S. advisors for the Iraqi Security Forces - to some 15,000, up from about 7,000. It should also maintain the covert special operations forces to track, capture and kill high value insurgent targets...
...While unnamed Pentagon sources and outsiders have speculated that senior Marine commanders knew - or should have known - exactly what the Marines did on the ground that day, military sources now say that both Marine two-star generals in Iraq at the time will likely be cleared of any serious criminal wrongdoing...
...Marines who were on the ground in Haditha that day, they too will soon learn what charges they might face. Military sources say Lt. General James Mattis, the senior officer responsible for deciding whether to press charges and the punishments if the Marines are found guilty, will make his recommendations in mid-December. Three Marines, including Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, may be charged with murder for their actions in Haditha after their squadmate, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, was killed by an IED in the early morning of that fateful day. The Marines on the ground are alleged to have retaliated...