Word: guardedness
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HOPE IS A CLUSTER BOMB IN wartime, shredding peace of mind. An Iraqi mother hopes her children will be safe--but then she learns that bombers are placing children visibly in the backseat, as unwitting little decoys, so the car can clear the checkpoints before the driver blows it up...
Now Blackwater and other security contractors are a ubiquitous presence in Iraq. The skies buzz with their single-striped Little Bird helicopters. When I was a correspondent in Baghdad in 2004, Blackwater convoys were notorious for bringing a Wild West mentality to the streets of Baghdad. They were easily identifiable...
When Amy B. Diaz ’08 woke up at around 2 a.m. on Feb. 20, she thought the noise she heard emanating from her common room was a disoriented person walking into the wrong suite.Instead, she found police officers in her Kirkland House bathroom wrestling with a late...
ITHACA, N.Y.—The Harvard men’s basketball team used a succession of huge three-point plays down the stretch to come back from a 14-point deficit on Friday night, beating the perimeter-oriented Big Red at its own game, in its own gym, 85...
Twenty minutes down a dusty unpaved road, about 30 miles east of Arusha, past Masai herdsmen in traditional dress, is the guarded entrance to the mines. Ahead, teams of donkeys are carrying drinking water to the miners. At a glance, you can take in the entire four-mile stretch where...