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...Americans charged with maintaining order in this roiling, ruined city in western Iraq, it's too late to make friends. One year ago, the Marines launched an assault to take back Fallujah from insurgents, including some loyal to al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who had overrun the city and used it as a base for spreading mayhem throughout Iraq. A week of house-by-house fighting left hundreds of insurgents dead--and saddled U.S. forces and the Iraqi government with the task of rebuilding a battered city and persuading 210,000 uneasy locals to return home. Some military...
...immense volume of meals.Regardless of why they are imposed, these restrictions are necessary for two reasons. First, Harvard runs 14 dining halls because dining halls are the focal point of House life. They create a sense of community that would not exist in their absence. When dining halls are overrun with other students on a regular basis, House community suffers. Second, part of the convenience of the House system is having a readily accessible and conveniently located dining hall. Students who live in a House should not have trouble getting food or finding places to sit because of overcrowding?...
...most popular design of those shortlisted for the MCA was an elegantly fanned Moving Image Museum at the Harbour Bridge end of the site. Its architect, Sydney's Richard Francis-Jones, now finds himself at the helm of the Auckland redevelopment. With the original 1887 French chateau?style building overrun by storage and an unwieldy airconditioning system, Francis-Jones was faced with a similarly tricky heritage site. His solution has been to restore the existing spaces and double their area with what he calls a "hovering canopy" of sunlit new galleries running off a central atrium to the north...
From there, all aspects of the game seemed to go downhill for Harvard. With all of the momentum and seemingly ready to just overrun the Stags, the Crimson had a few mental lapses down the stretch that almost cost it the victory...
...local opinion. But there is every reason to believe the violence will return and the U.S. will be forced to fight there again--with the insurgents betting that the Americans will lose a bit more of their will and support each time they go back. In a house overrun during the battle, a newspaper sits in a living room, its pages brimming with pictures of a U.S. assault in the city. Dated Sept. 2-10, the report could have been an account of this month's battle, but it isn't. It is already a year old. --With reporting...