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...Ghazaliya, a sprawling neighborhood in western Baghdad where Shi'ite militants are pressing a campaign to drive out Sunnis. Acting on neighborhood tips, Peterson's men search suspected Mahdi Army safe houses, which often have a green ribbon hanging on the front door. Sometimes the signs are even more obvious. One house thought to be a Mahdi Army fighting position looks like a makeshift combat outpost. Barbed wire snakes across the top of the outside walls. A tree in the yard has a ladder leading to a lookout offering a wide view of the street. The windows are filled with...
...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
Josephine knew that Harvard was beginning to actively engage with the Allston neighborhood and the City of Boston in a community planning process that centered around the University’s long-term aspirations for growth. Given the obvious intersection of interests and timelines, Josephine explained, it seemed worthwhile for Charlesview and Harvard to begin to consider their shared future in Allston...
...reaction to the young age of soldiers in fighting Vietnam, many states lowered the MLDA and allowed 18-year-olds to drink during the 1970s. By 1984, however, the federal government compelled states to reset the MLDA to 21 in response to the obvious reality of the time: Quite simply, lower MLDAs have failed in practice...
...country, “There is light at the end of the corridor.” Indeed, there might be; it’s just not at the end of the corridor we’re currently walking down. The Iraq Study Group report confirms what is obvious: The course of action we are on is the wrong one and demands alteration. The Bush administration should heed the advice of the Baker commission’s report and begin to gradually and systematically withdraw troops from Iraq...