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...years. Then, when it is time for your discharge, an obscure clause in your contract (which gives the military the right to compel additional services) is invoked, and back you go to the hell of Iraq. You have no right of appeal, no legal recourse. According to the press notes for Kimberly Peirce's powerful film, some 81,000 young men and women have been "stop-lossed" since the U.S. invaded Iraq five years ago, with untold numbers of them choosing to go AWOL, living underground or in exile, but perpetually on the run, rather than accept injustice...
...former vice president of external investments at HMC revamped Wellesley's investment strategy, helping the school's endowment earn an average annual return of 13.5 percent during her five-year tenure, according to a Harvard press release. Wellesley's investments grew by almost a quarter in 2007 and nearly matched HMC's results...
...British victims and survivors, the island's volcano erupted, sparking a riotous evacuation scenario in which frantic locals fought with shell-shocked British citizens for spots on the rescue boat. Sandwiched between the two events was a rotating cast of corrupt customs officials, traumatized crash victims, a blood-lusty press corps, unidentified bodies showing up in the morgue, ill-equipped local doctors with a penchant for amputation, grieving family members and looters...
...part of an effort by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to prepare its U.S.-based Rapid Deployment Team to respond to future natural and manmade disasters in the hemisphere. The British government decided to ramp up this type of training after taking a beating in the press for its perceived clumsy handling of the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali...
News from the south of Iraq was no less grim. In Basra, Iraqi forces pressed their three-day offensive against what both Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to call "criminal elements." Spokesmen for Moqtada al-Sadr have openly denounced the military campaign and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces. In what is widely regarded as an effort to maintain the precarious ceasefire renewed by Sadr in February, both coalition forces and the Iraqi military have carefully avoided referring to the armed fighters as Sadr's supporters, but rather as unaffiliated criminals and thugs. "The operation in Basra...