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Reared on paeans to Saddam Hussein and forced to chant "Long live Saddam" whenever a teacher strode into the room, Iraqi kids are in for some changes at school. Now, the Coalition Provisional Authority governing Iraq has ordered that the country's textbooks be stripped of pro-Saddam propaganda. Iraqi Education Ministry officials can't rewrite everything before school starts in September, but they're fixing what they can. Some items slated for pruning: Exercises like this, from a sixth-grade Arabic textbook: "Add not to the following sentence: 'The Iranians are brave.'" Questions like this, from a second-grade...
...military mission in parts of Iraq looks set to increasingly combine reconstruction with counterinsurgency, which according to the DOD's dictionary describes "those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency." And textbook counterinsurgency prioritizes the political and administrative aspects over combat - the insurgency depends on the support or, at least, consent of the local population; the authorities work to isolate and destroy the insurgents by winning the loyalty of the local population through providing good governance and protection from intimidation. The U.S. hopes to get help from allies, hoping to recruit...
...been discouraged by the overly sour native grapes found along the North Fork of Long Island, a narrow stretch of land some 90 miles east of New York City. Not dissuaded, the Hargraves purchased a farmhouse along with 66 acres of land, 10,000 rooted vines and a textbook titled General Viticulture...
...chief function is to mark the passing of years: a clunky effort to move the story forward. The absence of narrative punch is compounded by a paucity of interesting characters. Brick Lane seems to be populated entirely by clichés, one-dimensional people taken straight from a textbook of Indo-Anglian Lit. Nazneen is docile and, until the final few pages, dutiful, never speaking her mind, never standing up to her weakling of a husband. Chanu is the stereotypical first-generation Asian immigrant, holding on to fantasies of his native land's historic glories so he can feel superior...
...when a textbook entitled The Psychological World of the Teenager contained not a single chapter on girls, Gilligan set out to publish an entire study focused on young women...