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...were wounded. A month after this order, however, Blackwater’s officers are still active in Baghdad and its massive fort inside the Green Zone is still humming with activity. This defiance of the Iraqi government—and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s recent push for Blackwater to leave before the six-month deadline—is a terrible contradiction to America’s supposed respect for the autonomy of the new Iraqi government. Of course, there are numerous issues that surround the exit of Blackwater USA, which holds a $1.2 billion contract with...
...friendly German Chancellor and a member of the CDU, said that no such change would take place on her watch. She said that Germany would be better off improving traffic circulation in order to reduce the amount of time cars spent in traffic jams. Other parliamentarians said Germany should push technical fixes such as more fuel efficient cars...
...Steve Miles, a medical ethicist and the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror, says it may not be necessary to teach every medical student the specifics of torture. Rather, there's a more general skill all doctors need: push back--the ability to say no, whether it's to a commander who wants a prisoner tortured or an HMO that wants the potential benefits of an expensive treatment concealed. "Every doctor is going to wind up in a dual-loyalty situation," Miles says. The answer is to remember that a doctor's first objective...
...said. “First and foremost, we want to improve on our recent performances at Heps,” Saretsky added. With the momentum generated by Harvard’s rookies, that shouldn’t be hard to do. “We push each other to do well,” Richardson said. “We need to make sure that we’re aggressive and put it all out there...
After watching the men's water polo team push their bodies to the limit and implausibly comeback from a six-goal deficit in the second half, the surveyors of fate decided to deal a particularly crippling blow to the Crimson’s season...