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...production of “Julius Caesar.”The Harvard Crimson: Let’s talk about “The Wire” first. What was it like working in a setting like Baltimore?Jim True-Frost: We got a lot of support in Baltimore. The locals were very happy to see us. They treated us like local heroes. The underclass of a city like Baltimore is not something that you normally see portrayed on television. And especially a lot of police in the city felt like our show, as a “cop show...
...Prime Minister al-Maliki escalated his offensive against the Sadrists on Sunday by warning that they would be barred from participating in October's nationwide local elections if they did not disband the Mahdi Army. Although much of the government backed Maliki's statement, even his allies acknowledged it would be an uphill battle. "Let's be realistic, Maliki's main goal is to wipe out the Sadrists before elections because he knows his bloc will lose to them," Alia Nasayif Jasim, a legislator from the secular Iraqi National Accord party, told TIME. "It is impossible to wipe...
...Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. BENJAMIN SACHS The third member of the group, Sachs, is a labor law scholar who has been the Joseph Goldstein fellow and lecturer at Yale Law Schoool since fall 2005. Sachs is currently working on several articles about state and local labor law, new labor law regulation, and the “union wage gap.” In addition to clerking for Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after receiving his law degree from Yale, he served as a staff attorney at the Workplace...
...retired three-star Army general, has spelled out just how shaky that alliance with the Sunnis is. "Our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty," Odom told the Senate Foreign Relations committee last Wednesday. He cited one estimate that the U.S. military is paying a local strongman $250,000 a day to keep the peace in a 36-square mile swath of the country. "Remember, we do not own these people, we rent them - and they can break the lease at any moment...
...despite the tentative calm, the situation in Iraq is actually getting worse, Odom said. It has led to a proliferation of militias loyal to local warlords, who, in turn, are loyal to various political leaders. "This can hardly be called military stability, much less progress toward political consolidation," he added. "To call it fragility that needs more time to become success is to ignore its implications...