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...KINDS OF MILITARY EXPERTS, BOTH active duty and retired, have been calling for more troops since before the war began--former Army chief Eric Shinseki, former Centcom boss Anthony Zinni and, perhaps loudest of all, Senator John McCain. But seen in another light, the surge is the latest salvo in the 30-year tong war between the two big foreign policy factions in the Republican Party: the internationalists and the neoconservatives. The surge belongs to the neocons and in particular to Frederick Kagan, who taught military history at West Point for a decade and today works out of the American...
...opening salvo in the fight was made this week by Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas which is nearly 40% Hispanic. Despite protests in the streets and threats of lawsuits and boycotts, the city council voted to make English the official language and fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. In Austin, meanwhile, Republicans began trooping into the state Capitol with stacks of bills aimed at cutting off benefits to illegal aliens, taxing their remittances south of the border, and requiring proof of citizenship at the voting booth. The harshest bill would deny welfare and other benefits even...
...that academia not be distracted by internecine debates in which relatively little will be gained or lost, regardless of who is right, and instead focus our efforts on providing a quality education and increasing financial aid based on need for all students.IT'S ALSO FASCINATING to read Gutmann's salvo in light of today's Crimson scoop on her travels to Cambridge this weekend. Surprised by reporters outside her hotel, Gutmann sort-of repeated her sort-of denial of any interest in the Harvard presidency, but her mere presence in the vicinity of the Yard is likely to dominate talk...
...FREE SPEECH battle is on at Columbia, where the athletic department has put the men's club hockey team on ice after a recruitment flier—"STOP BEING A PUSSY," it urged—offended students. The latest in the Spec's blanket coverage is a salvo from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which asked that the team be reinstated. A Spec editorial calls the flier "tasteless" but the punishment "excessive." A columnist also comes to the team's defense. Surprisingly, nobody calls the athletic department pussies...
...Estes said.“We looked and saw that we’re going to be in a struggle here, and I think we as coaches panicked on offense and decided to throw the ball,” he added.But Brown countered the Crimson’s opening salvo with an 18-play, 66-yard drive over 8:16 in the second quarter, making the score 21-7 at the half.Brown came out with a little momentum after halftime, stifling Harvard’s opening drive and forcing a punt. But the opportunity was soon wasted as DiGiacomo rolled...