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After the first Gulf War, in which five female service members were killed in action and two taken prisoner, Congress lifted the ban on women serving on combat ships. The Pentagon scrapped the rule that barred women from assignments with a high risk of facing enemy fire. Now women are excluded from only 9% of Army roles (though that represents nearly 30% of active-duty positions); 99% of all occupations and positions in the Air Force are open to women, and in the Navy, women are excluded from only SEAL teams and submarines...
...million, are Hindu, and are concentrated in the north and east). The roots of discord go back to colonial times. The British favored the Tamils in the civil service in what Neil DeVotta, author of Blowback, a book about the origins of the conflict, says was "classic divide and rule." After independence in 1948, the Sinhalese took revenge. They made Sinhala the official language, discriminated against Tamils in areas like education and farming, and made Sinhala chauvinism a winning electoral strategy, most recently last November for President Rajapakse. Eventually, the L.T.T.E. took up the cause for the Tamils and began...
...required for all courses with at least five students. The measure met fierce resistance from many faculty members including Professor of German Peter J. Burgard and Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the latter claiming that “course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” (The Faculty narrowly voted to postpone a vote on Gross’ proposal.)While it is inherently difficult for students to evaluate course content itself (how is one supposed to “evaluate?...
...lugubrious Walter Cronkite played the role of national town crier, counting off the days of captivity. Is it any surprise that all these years later the hostage taking is an episode that refuses to subside into mere history? The mullahs who exploited it to consolidate their power still rule. The hatreds it set loose still poison relations between the U.S. and Iran. Some events won't lie down and play dead...
...when he has already been Governor? Brown says the jobs are completely different. A Governor plays defense across a broad front, he says, whereas an attorney general can play offense in a more targeted way--on workers' rights, the environment and consumer protection, all at a time when the "rule of law has been undermined" by the Bush Administration. "The balance between change and continuity has always been a part of my life. Continuity looms a lot right now." He thinks about that for a moment and then adds, "In a society of rootlessness and rapid change, I'm running...