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...closed lives,” to expand their horizons. He said he realized how isolated some of the first-years are in the Yard when a bus that brought his seminar back from a trip to Rudyard Kipling’s house in Vermont dropped the students off on Mount Auburn St. near the Cambridge post office. Many of the first-years didn’t know how to find their way back to the Yard...
...Gulf War. But doves have countered that going after Saddam a decade after his ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that overthrowing Saddam would create a dangerous power vacuum. Remember, before 1991, the U.S. had seen Saddam as a strategic counterweight to Iran, and the fact that the majority...
...members, at most, of Omar's 50,000-strong force are still active near Kandahar?and the regime has been drained of the financial and military resources that once sustained it. "Guerrilla warfare will be all that they can do," says an Air Force general. "I doubt they can mount a counteroffensive." Even if the Taliban commits its leftover men and mat?riel to a prolonged guerrilla campaign, there is little or no chance the same movement can return to power...
...provisions for the use of secret evidence, we see no reason to extend these efforts through the use of wholly secret tribunals. The federal bench is well qualified to handle cases of this nature, and there is no reason to compromise further the accused’s ability to mount an effective defense or the public’s ability to confirm that justice has been done...
...seems to me it must not be a terribly high level of interest or else [the FBI] would mount an investigation of their own,” Verdine said...