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The area in question covers about two square miles directly south of Um Qasr, and was attacked by Iraq once before, in 1973, Al-Duwaila said. He said the Iraqis occupy scattered Kuwaiti military facilities, including a barracks and an observation post.
It is not inconsequential to kill 100,000 people. That much life suddenly and violently extinguished must leave a ragged hole somewhere in the universe. One looks for special effects of a metaphysical kind to attend so much death -- the whoosh of all those souls departing. But many of them...
An individual's judgment, ordinarily sound and self-aware, may defer to the collective judgment in a group, where individual responsibility gets diffused, scattered among the many. Says R. Scott Tindale, associate professor of psychology at Chicago's Loyola University: "Under normal circumstances, when you are deciding what to do...
URBAN COLLEGE CAMPUSES have never been the safest environments. Thousands of people needing round-the-clock access to a lot of scattered buildings in a city is a security guard's nightmare. There will probably always be a problem with safety. But Harvard is finally making a real effort to...
After two decades of scattered alterations, defeated amendments and unending political and legal bickering, the system, which proponents say has singlehandedly provided low-income tenants with affordable housing, now stands at the crossroads of a comprehensive revamping.