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...police are beginning to catch up. Dhahir proudly shows off his new $500 Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...girls picking on boys? Since December, radio talk-show host and men's-rights activist Glenn Sacks has rallied followers to target a division of the David & Goliath line of clothing, which Sacks claims is antiboy. One T shirt features a cartoon image of a boy running from flying rocks, with text that reads, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" Some stores, including Bon-Macy's, have pulled the shirts. "They are part of a larger trend of male and father bashing," says Sacks. "Stopping the sale of these shirts is an initial blow to the boy-bashing culture...
...Erica Barry falls for Jack Nicholson’s dirty old music agent like it’s 1964 and he’s a Beatle. They get it on, then he freaks out and dumps her. Are general filmgoers, much less the movie’s middle-aged target audience, really supposed to believe that Keaton’s character would spend the next three days in toddler-style hysterics? Making the story all the more unbelievable is Keaton’s acting; Something’s Gotta Give makes you wish Keaton had the dramatic restraint shown...
...fact, it was Crimson columnist Lia C. Larson ’05, the target of Nguyen’s pompous credo on sexual equality, who first suggested that to get dates lonely Harvard kids should be a lot more like Coulter: To fix “the root cause of our dating difficulties,” Larson wrote last February, “Harvard students need more guts—not mixers.” Liberals of all stripes, also be assuaged: This is a love of groovy J.S. Mill-style liberation from all sources of “compulsion...
Harvard spokesperson Robert Mitchell said that Kirby’s goal for faculty expansion remains on target, despite warnings earlier this year about the need to curb spending...