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...home. But they can be federalized - and become part of the deployed overseas Army - if needed. It's one thing for such part-time troops to be called to action in the early days of a military campaign, when the gung-ho spirit and patriotism are at their peak. But it's quite another to be sending these people with established careers and lives outside the military back to Iraq in the war's fifth year. Because former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kept a ceiling on the Army's troop strength, the National Guard and reserve forces have become...
...death of founders and a lack of funds.“The current print run of n+1 is around 7,000 copies per issue,” says Alexandra Heifetz, the business manager of the magazine. This number, though seemingly small, is in fact rather impressive. At its peak, the print run of The Partisan Review only reached around 15,000. Nonetheless, the editors recognize the need for reassessment. “In the first of our issues, we sort of laid the groundwork,” adds Chad D. Harbach ’97, who recently became...
...disc, and the first frontloaded the fun, partying a bit too hearty with the opening cuts. Any attempts at sentiment felt artificial. What a difference two years have made. Murphy’s always known how to build a song, but here, every track climbs slowly to its inevitable peak. When the two titular words of opener “Get Innocuous” make their sole appearance in the song, it’s an ineffably perfect capstone to seven minutes’ worth of laser-synth disco. Most surprising is Murphy’s lyrical depth...
...number was $766 billion. Consumer debt has exploded as well: in 2006, U.S. households owed $12.8 trillion in mortgage and consumer loans--135% of disposable income. At first glance, the government picture actually looks comparatively good--federal debt, expressed as a share of the economy, is down from a peak of 49.4% in 1993 to 37% today--but that's only if you don't count future commitments to Social Security and Medicare recipients worth tens of trillions of dollars...
...insulating glass will reduce temperature changes and maximize available sunlight. The basement will even be equipped with a thermal-control system that will manufacture ice in the evenings, when energy demands are lowest, and use it to cool the building during the day, when power plants are running at peak capacity...