Word: socializes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only weird, but dangerous: instead of living on one of the big, heavily guarded bases outside town, the battalion is based in New Baghdad, the area where it fights. Part of the job is partnering with the local Iraqi security forces; part of the job is providing social services, figuring out sewage problems...
...difficult, from the ground up, to tell if any of these new tactics have an impact. The partnership with the Iraqis is tentative at best. The social services don't pan out. The troops continue to patrol in humvees, as before; they are blown up by IEDs, as before. The counterinsurgency manual gathers dust on the battalion commander's desk, then disappears. But somehow ... it works. A year later, the neighborhood is markedly quieter - but it's hard to say why. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
Additionally, hosts of the social events where SIP Fund money is used are required to refrain from drinking themselves. While it is likely that there will be many sober attendees at most parties, it is now guaranteed that there will be at least one. Conceivably, the host will work to ensure that those who drink are of age and that the party does not get out of hand...
...clearly spent a great deal of time thinking how best to devise a way to provide money to students for social events that both is practical and responds to concerns administrators have expressed in the past. The longer administrators and House Masters continue to slow down the implementation of SIP, the longer students will continue turning to unsupervised parties in their suites while College social life suffers. With several significant precautions in place, it is time for administrators to concede that, though there may always be underage drinking, the SIP program is worthy of their approval...
...formal letter on "married love" and reproduction, a document that will also spell out its position against abortion and in vitro fertilization. A draft of the document makes the case that marriage has been under assault for decades by secularists, feminists and others who see it as a social construction easily morphed into new shapes or ignored altogether. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, who leads the U.S. church's efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage, was encouraged by the recent referendum in Maine. He told TIME over the the weekend, "In Maine, when people were asked...