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...telling that this watershed moment involved American employees of a private security contractor. Of all the changes in tactics that have made the war in Iraq distinct from prior U.S. engagements, perhaps no shift is as profound as the massive hiring--and varied deployment--of private contractors in combat zones. There are an estimated 100,000 contractors in Iraq, compared with a fraction of that the last time the U.S. was fighting there, and they are not working in just mess halls. They are bodyguards for vips, snipers in the field, translators and interrogators. They man checkpoints at Army bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims of an Outsourced War | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Rhonda and Zovko's mother Donna to testify in February. The issues of negligence were raised at the emotional hearing, but so were more technical violations. There is, for example, the question of whether the chain of subcontractors that led to Blackwater on that day was even authorized to hire private security. Under logcap, the contracting program that provides private logistical support to the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq, all security was supposed to be provided by the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims of an Outsourced War | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Hire a homeless person to fall asleep at his desk in his room...

Author: By Erin C. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Things To Do To Sleeping People in Lamont | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

McLoughlin stressed that Fellows are not hired to fulfill a particular mold but instead encouraged to make their term “[their] own.” The fact that Gouinlock is the College’s first female czar is “good for us,” according to McLoughlin, but he added that the College was not looking to hire a female specifically...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In First, College Names Czarina | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...shirts without a bra. Her Oscar dress, however—a dark blue Proenza Schouler with ostrich feather trim—was both dramatic and original: something quite hard to pull off. Pregnancy—and therefore, Peter Saarsgard—have inexplicably inspired this former granola hipster to hire a competent stylist.CATE BLANCHETTPretty much every time I’ve seen a Cate Blanchett movie, I’ve fallen asleep, so my opinion of her as an actress is rather uninformed. I do however, love everything she wears to awards shows, which is clearly the more important thing...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revisiting Oscars Fashion, Whether I Like It Or Not | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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