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...America performance festival have this goal in mind as they prepare for large Spring celebrations and collaborations. The Playwrights’ Festival seeks to bridge gaps between different pre-professional aspects of undergraduate theater, while Emerging America hopes to build a connection between three professional companies and the Boston public...
...Something Rotten Another key to learning is a readiness to confront past mistakes. In January, a British public inquiry into the Iraq conflict heard evidence from former Prime Minister Tony Blair. "In the end, [the war] was divisive, and I'm sorry about that," said Blair. But he continued: "If I'm asked if we're safer and more secure, I believe indeed that we are." (See pictures of the Bush-Blair friendship...
...Britain has also begun to examine questions of its culpability for civilian deaths. A second public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old receptionist killed in British custody in September 2003, has heard that internal warnings about the treatment of prisoners were ignored. "The procedure for detention and collection of evidence can only be described as a shambles," wrote Lieut. Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the army's senior legal officer in Iraq, in a memo written only months before Mousa's death. A further inquiry has started to examine claims that up to 20 Iraqi detainees were...
...before the start of the U.S. surge last summer, morale among British forces was undermined by mounting casualties - three-quarters from improvised explosive devices - and public skepticism about the NATO mission. Operation Moshtarak, this spring's offensive led by U.S. troops, has helped buck up spirits but misgivings remain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied that the decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud...
...Serve to Lead "We all want to make a difference," says Stephanie Manning, 23, spattered with mud at the conclusion of the Welsh exercise. Manning worries that strengthening public opposition to Afghanistan may thwart her ambitions to serve there and brushes aside the risks such service would entail. "You can't have a job with such great highs without great lows as well." (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...