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...enlist foreign military officers in the spinning. Each year more than 2,000 foreign officers from more than 50 countries are students at Defense Department schools, such as the National Defense University in Washington, and regional security-studies centers the Pentagon operates in Hawaii and Germany. Hoping those mid-level officers will happily promote Washington's interests after taking classes in the U.S., the Pentagon for the past 1 1/2 years has quietly been organizing a program to continue cultivating them when they go home, a senior Defense official tells TIME...
...share my beliefs about democracy with the next anonymous person who shits here.” More astounding is the fact that there is writing on the wall directly behind the bowl, suggesting that someone was so eager to scrawl their worthless opinions that he actually got up mid- or post-deuce to do so. Either that or he was deucing Slater-style, in which case he is powerful...
...Hussein's Baath regime. Such a move could wreck the Iraqi forces that the U.S. has spent two years and $5 billion trying to train, according to U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington. They are also worried that a sweeping de-Baathification order could toss out thousands of former mid-level men who are cooperating with the U.S. against the insurgency. "We want to see the Iraqi security forces take a bigger role," says a U.S. official in Baghdad. "Purging these people without reference to their loyalty now or their competence will set that back...
...Baathification push is being led by members of the Shi'ite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, the most powerful bloc in the new government, who accuse outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of packing the country's security apparatus with former Baathists. The issue is so sensitive that during a mid-April visit to Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered a private warning to new Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari that the U.S. does not support a mass purge...
It’s probably wise to refrain from drawing conclusions when the Harvard sailing team fails to impress in mid-season regattas. Recent undistinguished finishes failed to foretell the team’s success this weekend, as the No. 12 Crimson women dominated the New England championships and two of its freshmen showed themselves to be among the best in the nation...