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...industrial plants twist a large iron plate and used the result as a column in the center of the house. The column works not only as a beautiful objet d'art but also as blinds for the bathroom and for the dressing room of the boutique on the ground floor...
...military commanders, who have long argued that troop reductions must depend on conditions on the ground, warn against any abrupt cutbacks. "A precipitous pullout would be destabilizing," says Army Lieut. General John Vines, the top ground commander in Iraq. And the Pentagon expects a spike in violence in the run-up to the Dec. 15 election for a new parliament. But the debate over a withdrawal, spurred in part by Democratic Representative John Murtha's call two weeks ago for an accelerated departure, is now out in the open. Here are some of the key questions going forward...
...equipped" are actually "in the fight," meaning fully capable of planning and waging active combat. The Iraqis have taken over from U.S. forces in a few regions, and the Americans have ceded control of 29 of the 110 military bases established by coalition forces. But U.S. troops on the ground have their doubts. "Don't trust anyone in the Iraqi army," a Marine sergeant told TIME last week as his unit moved out on patrol with Iraqi soldiers. And a senior U.S. official estimates that only 35,000 of the 110,000-strong Iraqi police force are effective and reliable...
...grant applications.According to an e-mail from Lowell House UC representative Ali Zaidi ’08, who proposed the suspension, the UC should see no problem in funding a group that requires its officers to be Christian because it “has a right [to discriminate] on grounds of freedom of association.” But, in fact, the imperative to preserve students’ freedom of association would seem to support the exact opposite decision on the part of the UC. By suspending its bylaws to fund the AACF, the UC has surrendered the moral high ground...
...People are very satisfied,” she said. Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn said last week that Harvard considered the contract’s terms “fair to both the University and the custodians,” calling it “an acceptable middle ground.” Negotiators from Harvard and the SEIU Local 615 first sat down at the table on Sept. 22 and vetted 60 different proposals during 14 negotiating sessions, according to Wrinn. The two sides finally struck the tentative agreement after a 12-hour session the day the old contract...