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...When Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers paid a surprise visit to Baghdad, the general quoted Senator Ted Stevens in his effort to lift today's soldiers into that hallowed company. "They've written about the World War II generation as being the greatest generation. But he said it's this generation right now that is the next greatest generation." Some soldiers, however, wonder whether he was telling them the truth or just what he thought they want to hear. Dispatched to Kuwait and waiting for the signal to invade in the winter of 2003, soldiers who heard about...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) announced the agreement yesterday in a joint statement with the University, establishing yearly wage increases and a new, centralized office that will enforce hiring preference for workers facing layoffs across Harvard...
...chummy support for Pakistan’s military regime. Referring to the beneficiary (and initiator) of a military coup as “a courageous leader and a friend of the United States,” as Bush has described President Musharaff, and inviting him to take part in joint press conferences with the Secretary of Defense, sends the wrong message about America’s commitment to democracy. In fact, as The American Prospect recently pointed out, our government’s financial support for brutal authoritarian regimes throughout Central Asia has increased substantially since September 11. It?...
...slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The Marines eased their stranglehold on the city three weeks ago, placed a former general in Saddam's army in charge of security and began joint patrols through the city with local Iraqi forces. So far, the patrols have gone off without major incident. The change in tactics--for weeks the U.S. had been threatening a massive assault on the city--was aimed, senior military sources say, at addressing what they believe was one of the occupation...
Last week the Department of Justice announced it was going to crack open history and see if anything new crawled out. Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta described a joint project with Mississippi to reopen the 1955 inquiry into the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till because "information has been brought to our attention that suggests that other individuals may have been involved in the murder." A main impetus, he said, was an unfinished documentary by novice director Keith Beauchamp...