Word: mortared
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...fleet, boarded an armored SUV and drove into city along the notoriously perilous airport road. At one point they were slowed by a traffic blockage. They went straight to meetings that continued into dinner with Iraqi leaders at U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad?s residence. The sound of an exploding mortar round that had been lobbed over the green zone?s walls disrupted conversations that were, by all accounts, serious and intense...
Harvard’s House system isn’t working. Shorn of their pre-randomization characters and rendered impotent by insular blocking groups, the College’s 12 Houses can’t possibly hope to transcend their own bricks and mortar to become viable incubators of community. A significant change in how Harvard assigns its students is long overdue; since randomized housing, any success at creating House community has come in spite of the system, which fricassees House populations into complete incoherence along blocking group lines...
...makes people more inclined to [blog],” he says. “The space is more useful. There will be a distinct public sphere at Harvard.”However, the site is not yet a “virtual mirror” of the brick-and-mortar Harvard community. In the end, whether the Harvard blogosphere eventually becomes a true campus commonwealth hinges on the contributions of its participants.“The question is not how useful the program is, but how many people are willing to spend time to produce content,” Golis...
...servicewomen in the Vietnam War. Three hundred have been wounded in Iraq. Few female troops are out of the line of fire. While military police patrol Baghdad with Iraqi cops who skirmish almost daily with insurgents, women clerks and cooks inside U.S. camps are vulnerable to rocket and mortar attacks by militants. Such hazards underscore the threats to life and limb that still confront all U.S. troops in Iraq, even as the military attempts to turn over more combat responsibility to Iraqi forces. First Sergeant Michelle Collins, 38, who waits anxiously every day for "her kids" to come back...
...into a major conduit of cheap labor for the Hamptons begins with a single wanderer. Mario Coria, 55, grew up so poor in Tuxpan that at age 11 he left for Mexico City to work in construction, a skinny kid carrying 80-lb. bags of cement and mortar on ramshackle scaffolding, sending nearly all his earnings back to Tuxpan. In January 1977, when he was 26, Coria had a chance encounter that would change his life--and that of Tuxpan--forever. He ran into a vacationing restaurateur from Bridgehampton who was asking directions to the Palace of Fine Arts...