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...December 2006, Munir was assigned to the U.S. Embassy’s Provincial Reconstruction Team for Anbar Province, a joint civilian-military group that supports the provincial and local governments in the primarily Sunni region in western Iraq. Munir served as the liaison between Ramadi—Anbar’s capital—and Baghdad, where Anbar’s provincial government had fled to escape insurgent violence...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building a Nation | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...training camp.Despite the deep-rooted familial interest, the Duboe sons, including sophomore midfielder Jason Duboe of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team, have long since traded in the proverbial communal interest for one of a different variety, one whose locus of popularity lies in an entirely different region of the country.“Lacrosse is an up-and-coming sport here,” Fred Duboe says. “It’s nowhere near the level of the East Coast where kids grow up with lacrosse sticks in their hands. Jason grew up with...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson's Duboe Is 'Wild' For Lacrosse | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Looking at the political history of other countries in the region, Feldman said he believed that was unlikely. But when gave his analysis, some administrators got angry...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Wearing the Right Shoes | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Klaus, a graduate student in history at Harvard, arrived with his “feet on the ground, head in the sky” in Iraq in 2005, two years after the U.S. invasion, to teach English literature and American history in the country’s Kurdistan region...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teaching for American in Iraq | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...greater degree than other parts of Iraq, but it is also indelibly marked with the history of a U.S. betrayal. In 1991, the United States encouraged a Kurdish uprising against Saddam, only to back off their support, leaving room for the former dictator to commit unprecedented atrocities in the region...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teaching for American in Iraq | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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