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...building trust in middle-class Sunni enclaves like Mansour has become a key component of the military's counterinsurgency strategy. "We're in competition with al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Dale Kuehl, "for who can protect the Sunnis better." Baghdad's Sunni population is largely confined to a narrow band west of the Tigris, extending from Mansour to the Baghdad airport. Kuehl and his 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center is marked with palm...
...beating Dartmouth and the 2V did well in beating out teams they had fallen to earlier in the season.” For the heavyweights, the first varsity boat narrowly missed the bronze, trailing third-place Princeton by just over a second in the Grand Final. Despite the narrow miss, the Black and White still gained on the national competition, taking out rival Dartmouth, a squad it had lost to twice already this season. For the heavies, that was a sign of good things to come. “We feel like our boats have been gaining speed over...
...were broadening the photographer's palette. Atget mostly shunned these advances, using a bulky, large-format view camera on a tripod - and never any artificial light, even for interiors. He figured exposure times in his head - a relatively glacial 1/11th of a second was typical - and learned how to narrow the aperture to ensure that both background and foreground remained in focus. His genius lay in making a picture look artfully composed yet breathlessly immediate: what Evans called his "lyrical understanding of the street...
...Make Poverty History in the United Kingdom and millions of people who previously had never been involved in public campaigns, particularly young people, were involved in that. You can see in the environmental campaigns people playing a part where previously they'd not been involved. It's a narrow definition of politics that suggests that people who are not interested are totally cynical. When we had the tsunami it's effect in Britain was that millions of people were prepared to give donations or offer help to Asia. Politics has got to find better ways of engaging people...
...peers for having “stimulated great progress on campus,” according to the event program. The nominations were then evaluated by a committee of non-senior peers. According to selection committee member Susan H. Nguyen ’09, the committee took seven hours to narrow the pool from the 30 nominees to the eight award recipients...