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...Over the past 10 days more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers and 1,000 Iraqi security forces have been searching neighborhoods east of the Tigris River in Baghdad for al-Taie. U.S. troops cordoned off the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City in the search before Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told commanders he wanted the roadblocks taken down Tuesday. The top American military spokesman in Iraq Major General William Caldwell said Thursday that one U.S. soldier had been killed during the search and eight wounded. Caldwell added that the U.S. has "credible intelligence" on who is behind the kidnapping...
...Thursday, Nov. 16 pep rally will be preceded by College-sponsored Stein Clubs in the Houses, and four parties funded by the Dean’s Office will be thrown the following night—two each at the River and in the Quad...
...Harvard expands its presence to the other side of the Charles River, it’s scaling back its investment on the other side of the globe. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), which steers the school’s $29.2 billion endowment, has sold a minority stake in its 468,000 acre Kaingaroa forest in New Zealand. The buyer is a fund established by the country’s national government to provide for its aging population. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund will acquire a stake of approximately $200 million from HMC, which has owned the forest estate since December...
...money of a normal house,” he said after the meeting last night. “There are better places we could have put that money.” Representatives also passed an initiative to increase the frequency of shuttles running from the quad to the river on the day of the Harvard-Yale Game. —Staff writer Margot E. Edelman can be reached at medelman@fas.harvard.edu...
...increasingly active in Washash, which some U.S. troops now call Little Sadr City. Sutton believes they are working to make Washash a Mahdi Army stronghold west of the Tigris. Until now, the militia's base in the capital has been Sadr City on the east bank of the river, a sprawling slum that houses some 2.5 million Shi'ites. The Mahdi Army's expansion across the river complicates the efforts of U.S. forces to quell sectarian violence...