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...Also in the Walkleys spotlight were Rory Callinan and Tim McGirk, finalists in the magazine feature writing category. Their compelling special report about a disastrous 2002 Australian Special Air Service patrol in Afghanistan ("In the Valley of Death," June 6) created a political storm for the Australian Defence Force and the federal government. Brisbane-based Callinan has set a cracking pace with his reporting on Australian national security and defense, and from Papua New Guinea, since joining Time last year. Please join me in congratulating Tom, Rory, Tim and the rest of our team on their splendid achievement...
...campaign. In conjunction with remarks on border security and immigration reform, Bush will speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Sen. John Kyl of Arizona, at the Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix. After an overnight stay in Phoenix, he will visit the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in El Paso, Tex., then jet to Denver for a $1,000-a-plate luncheon for two-term Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, whose tough district is closely watched by the national party. On Wednesday, the President is to make remarks on ?the War on Terror? at the Navy Academy, in Annapolis...
...regions, and the Americans have ceded control of 29 of the 110 military bases established by coalition forces. But U.S. troops on the ground have their doubts. "Don't trust anyone in the Iraqi army," a Marine sergeant told TIME last week as his unit moved out on patrol with Iraqi soldiers. And a senior U.S. official estimates that only 35,000 of the 110,000-strong Iraqi police force are effective and reliable...
...city the insurgents can claim they own. Although a U.S. Army brigade hunts them daily, the rebels move freely among a supportive populace. U.S. troops are despised here. The insurgents are embraced. "They are the people we see every day who give us a loaf of bread on a patrol, the people we will be fighting that night," says Lieut. Colonel Robert Roggeman, whose 2-69 Armored Regiment is battling to control the eastern part of this city...
Harvard’s triple-overtime football victory was not the only reason to celebrate this past weekend. The Harvard-Yale Game also came and went without any alcohol-related arrests or injuries. According to Yale Police Department (YPD) Lieutenant Michael Patten, who was in charge of the YPD patrol at The Game, ambulances transported about 30 people away from the Yale Bowl for evaluation after excessive alcohol consumption. Still, he said, the game and accompanying festivities “went remarkably well” overall. “I don’t recall any specific incidents?...