Word: mortars
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BAGHDAD Mortar round jolts U.N. chief; Iraqi PM unmoved...
...Ghraib prison. Ganci houses prisoners who have no intelligence value - it seems to be simply a place to file and forget American mistakes - and its population mainly sits around sweltering in the deadly desert heat, without adequate food, sanitation or medical attention. Now and then, insurgents subject it to mortar fire, randomly killing some of its inhabitants, who from time to time riot in protest over their treatment. If there's a grace note to be found in this grim tale it is provided by an American guard, a former real estate agent named Benjamin Thompson, an open-faced innocent...
...Faust ought to emulate Pusey’s moral leadership and boldly assert environmental standards for a new century. Harvard is an academic exemplar sitting inside a “city upon a hill.” It will not have many chances to define itself in bricks and mortar like it will in the next few years. Its leaders must provide a vision of a sustainable 21st century world...
...desperately to be a global financial center, but it is hampered by outdated policies. The Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the vested interests that support him believe economic growth requires the constant pouring of concrete. That's so last century. A great city consists of not just bricks and mortar but green lungs and vibrant culture. The expatriates who staff the investment banks and hedge funds in Hong Kong are tempted not just by money but by quality of life. That's why clean, green Singapore is such a constant threat to Hong Kong...
...Haas convincingly evokes the paranoid atmosphere in Iraq, with its confusing web of alliances and grotesque ironies. Particularly successful is the portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge by the pool at a luxurious club as mortar attacks continue outside, and they make love to the sound of gunfire. At the same time, the film portrays U.S. soldiers with a striking lack of nuance. No explanation surfaces for the drowning at Samarra, and members of the military consistently paint themselves as ignorant thugs, spouting phrases such...