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...transcendence of state and national borders has enabled Opus Dei to expand into a group that boasts 80,000 members worldwide and 3,000 in 35 cities across the United States. These are likely conservative estimates of Opus Dei’s scope. Many of those affiliated with Opus Dei are not official members, but supporters not included in these statistics...
...dilemma Bush's team faced was too delicate for public discussion. The Administration has been fixated on limiting the scope of the war to avoid Iraqi casualties and the political damage they would do the U.S. "We made certain choices about how we fight this war," said a senior official last week, "to affect civilian life as little as possible." Precision bombing would hit only targets that would not involve heavy collateral damage...
...question openly debated last week was whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bet right when he decided on the scope of the invading force. Deployment is now at 250,000, but only the Army's 3rd Infantry Division is a heavy fighting force, and just 150,000 of the total are ground-combat troops. Chairman Myers insisted last week that the U.S. had deployed "just the right forces." Certainly those forces had a lot to do, from taking Baghdad to searching for Saddam's bio-chem weapons to delivering water and food to civilians. An additional 2,000 soldiers reach...
While Harvard has taken positive steps away from a “corroboration” rule, OCR’s finding does not make the Ad Board a just process. The scope of the complaint to OCR was narrow, and there are many components of Harvard’s disciplinary process for sexual assault cases that the complaint did not directly challenge and that remain worrisome...
This latest venture, a seven-part series called “The Whole Wide World,” is ambitious in scope, striving to “decode the riddles of the new race, the new map, the post-Cold War 21st century...