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...maybe they used to say the same thing about Saddam Hussein. But then I went out on a patrol with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Sadr City, which has some of the meanest streets in Iraq. The kids everywhere treated the GIs as friends, which I took as some sort of measure of how many of their parents must feel, too. It's possible they were nervous, or putting up a facade, at the sight of heavily armed foreign soldiers in their midst. But I found the same sentiment while interviewing Iraqis in different parts of the country. Whenever...
With the contracts of the security guards’ union set to expire next Tuesday and the possible outsourcing of those security positions, much is on the table for the 17 guards Harvard employs directly, who patrol the Yard and Kirkland and Mather Houses...
Students in the Houses also expressed concern for the guards that patrol their grounds...
...second season, The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) moves its action to Baltimore's port, where Detective James McNulty (Dominic West) has been exiled to the harbor patrol for ticking off his bosses. The waterfront is an ideal setting for The Wire's murky morality--a place that is neither here nor there, the porous membrane between America and the Other, the teeming intake for legal and illegal markets. Its shipping containers, stacked for acres like so many Pez, feed a ravenous economy with cameras and vodka and hookers--this season's case starts when a group of young women...
...must have been opium because I lost track of time." Later he was put on a donkey, still masked and bound. "I thought they were going to take me to the jungle and shoot me," he says. Instead, they knocked him unconscious and abandoned him. An army border patrol found him a week later, filthy and incoherent...