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...pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that this signaled a rift with Washington, Blair averred that these moves would be in tune with the new-minted policy of the Bush Administration and were "informed by Baker-Hamilton." The situation in southern Iraq "has never presented anything like the challenge of Baghdad" and had now reached a point in Basra - however battered the city and its economy, however uncertain its security - where the British-led coalition forces there could contemplate handing over control to the Iraqi army. "What all of this means...
...complex civil war has been playing out in miniature. Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia has been encroaching from Shula, the Shi'a-dominated neighborhood to the north. The Sunni minority has virtually vanished from northern Gazaliyah, driven away by murder and intimidation. In the heavily Sunni southern part of the neighborhood homegrown insurgents and foreign jihadists have been attacking the Americans and Shi'a-dominated security forces...
...Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” column, Feb. 11) about the selection of Harvard’s new president. But casting aspersions on President-elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War––more than 4,800 soldiers died on a single...
...Faust’s qualifications reveals an extremely intelligent and capable individual. She has been deemed "clearly one of the most distinguished historians in the country" by Steven Hahn, a former colleague of Faust’s at the University of Pennsylvania. Indeed, she is the winner of the Southern Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book, and she also has been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize, given to the best book in American history each year...
...answer the door every morning,” Scarry writes. “The rest, as they say, is history.”Scarry and Lilly plan to wait until after graduation to get married, listing Memorial Church, Phuket, Cambridge City Hall, or a nice beach in Southern China as possible locales. “If we continue to live in Boston, Widener/Lamont photos are definitely possible. But Mather is so much more photogenic, we would probably go there first,” jokes Scarry in an e-mail. For single undergrads, Scarry and Lilly recommend dormcest as a fool...