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...city embarks on them with more style than Oxford. The fashionable gathering place for the city's large student population is Port Meadow - an expansive greensward on Oxford's outskirts and the setting for boisterous all-night dance parties on April 30. Those left standing in the early hours troop back into town to join thousands of traditionalists and tourists for the centerpiece of the festivities: a dawn recital by the Magdalen Boy's Choir, given from the top of the spire of Magadalen College Chapel. Crowds gather below from about 5 a.m. and afterwards disperse for college parties...
...picked leadership. The election produced a new political leadership over which the U.S. has very little influence, and which may differ substantially with Washington on a range of issues, including - perhaps most importantly - the training, equipping and deployment of the Iraqi security forces, and the future of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq...
...Thaksin's widely applauded shift in position?including a reduction of troop numbers in the troubled region?has apparently done little to assuage the militants. In propaganda leaflets dropped in the South, they warned that the government cannot be trusted and that locals should not cooperate with the authorities. Now, Thailand is faced with the possibility that the insurgents are expanding their terror campaign into new parts of the country. "These militants are very provocative and getting more indiscriminate," says Sunai Phasuk, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "Their idea appears to be to try and trap Thaksin...
...Iraq. A precedent has already been set by Captain David Rozelle, a 33-year-old amputee who lost his right foot after his Humvee rolled over a land mine in Iraq in June 2003. He headed back to Iraq earlier this month to command a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment troop. Aside from those daily slow-drip shrapnel and bullet wounds, there are the times that Landstuhl's doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers...
...what U.S. commanders hope will be the future of combat in Iraq. Two years since the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. is scrambling to train and equip a new Iraqi army to take over combat duties and pave the way for a reduction in the size of the U.S. troop presence. After a slow start, the training program appears to be picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 150,000 to 105,000 by early next year, a move that reflects the improved capabilities of the Iraqi forces...