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...democracy, generals take their orders from civilian politicians and, as a rule, do their best not to embarrass them. Seems the chief of the British army didn't get the memo. Last week General Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff, gave interviews to [an error occurred while processing this directive] the London Daily Mail and the bbc that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. True, Dannatt pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces. But he also said that "the mere fact that we are still in some...
...That's just what happened this week, though it took a British and not an American general to start the dialogue. The straight-talking chief of the British Army, Gen. Richard Dannatt, gave interviews to the London Daily Mail and the BBC that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. Though he pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces, he also noted that they weren't invited in at the outset and are widely unpopular...
...None felt they had done anything exceptional, and Eastwood's film (one of two he has made about Iwo Jima, the other from the Japanese point of view) becomes a meditation on what does and does not constitute heroic behavior, The director sat down with his friend, TIME's Richard Schickel, to reflect further on the topic of heroism. Here is an excerpt from their conversation...
...Reviewer Richard S. Beck can be reached at rbeck@fas.harvard.edu...
...Richard M. Losick, the Cabot professor of biology, said he saw an “Allston-centric emphasis” to the report. He said he was concerned that cutting-edge research at the “interface” of various disciplines would abandon the Cambridge campus...