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Last Monday soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq were told by their commanders that they wouldn't be going home in September, as expected. Their tour had been extended by two or three months, at the least. 3rd ID commander Major General Buford Blount had already emailed their families the bad news, blaming "uncertainty of the situation in Iraq and the recent increase in attacks on coalition forces." The groan was palpable, with the soldiers and their families telling reporters - sometimes in terms distinctly unflattering to the Pentagon - that it was time for the unit that had suffered...
Every morning I run through the United States Naval Academy (USNA). Now, post-Sept. 11, this requires a stop at the guard to show valid ID. Driver’s license stuck back into my sports bra, I take off along the water’s edge...
...Guangzhou, landing a job as a graphic designer and the chance to make a home in new China's glittering boomtown. But three weeks into his new life, Sun's luck ran out. On his way to an Internet caf?, he was stopped by police and asked for his ID. When Sun said he had left it at home, the police took him to a nearby station. By the next day when his boss and friends showed up with the necessary papers, Sun had been transferred to a detention center for vagrants. Two days later, on March...
...starts. The lyrical pseudo-documentary style quickly lurches into horror-film mode. The killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They spring out of nowhere, giving their victims (and the audience) a seismic shock. They are monsters of the id--our worst nightmare. Not America's. Humanity...
...biggest culprit is the hour-long midterm, or “hourly.” Usually consisting of several phrases to be identified (IDs) and a short essay, a midterm attempts to measure the knowledge gained over two months in about 53 minutes. A typical ID asks for the significance of the battle of Gettysburg to a course on war and politics. If you think that’s difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis?...