Word: joint
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...Northwestern University sociologist and Army veteran, Charles Moskos pushed President Bill Clinton's Joint Chiefs of Staff to adopt the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays and lesbians in the military, arguing that while the policy was not ideal, openly gay soldiers could undermine the morale of their comrades. A draftee who served for two years in the 1950s, he never lost his dedication to the military or his belief that all citizens should give back to their country...
Barack Obama should keep Ball in mind as he mulls John McCain's suggestion of a joint visit to Iraq. Ball understood something important: that when you take a guided tour, your tour guide decides what you see. In Iraq today, as in Vietnam back then, the tour guides are America's officers and diplomats on the ground. And in Iraq, as in Vietnam, they have an incentive to show good news--which isn't always the same as the truth...
...military and divert U.S. attention from other problems to incrementally improve our chances of success. Obama thinks Afghanistan and Pakistan are more central to the war on terrorism and that our resources in those countries would bring a higher rate of return. Given that fundamental difference, a joint trip to Iraq--and only Iraq--concedes McCain's key assumption. Perhaps Obama should counter by proposing that they visit southern Afghanistan, where America's war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda has been crippled for years by the diversion of troops and attention to Iraq...
...czar—should focus on planning and promoting larger events that students cannot execute themselves, and help undergraduates maintain the autonomy they need to facilitate their own social lives.More glimmers of hope on an initially dismal horizon were evident in the new report of the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on College Life and House Life, which laid out a new set of regulations governing large campus social events. The draft included sensible proposals like earlier registration of parties and ticketing through the Harvard Box Office. Perhaps more importantly, the report was constructed with considerable student input, marking...
...best course of action was to make herself immediately indispensable: offer her fund-raising team to Obama, offer to barnstorm with him through states where she did well, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, offer to mobilize her key constituencies - like women and Latinos - for Obama in a series of joint rallies. It seemed obvious that if she pressed her unlikely case for the vice presidency too aggressively, Obama would have to deny it or risk seeming weak and unpresidential. Given the freight train of personal baggage and supertanker-size egos the Clintons transport, it would probably be best...