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TIME.com: The U.S. has announced it will pull most of its troops out of Saudi Arabia, and has already begun redeploying. Have the Saudis asked for the troop withdrawal, or does it reflect a downgrading of Saudi Arabia's significance as a U.S. ally in the region...
...implication that the media shelter the public from some news--or shelter that news from the public--is frustrating to journalists, in part because it's true. Reporting is full of noble and not-so-noble compromises. You keep troop movements secret. You leave certain subjects off limits in order to secure an exclusive with a certain ingenue. You don't ask a question that's begging to be asked--so you'll get called on at the next press conference. You do it out of decency or out of caution or, you tell yourself, to build the capital...
...great-grandchildren of fighters who in the 1960s sided with the U.S. to fight communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. Fabled for their resourcefulness and valor, many Hmong became members of a secret CIA-backed militia that helped rescue downed U.S. pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supplies and troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos. The communist Pathet Lao movement?and its patrons in Hanoi?has never forgotten the Hmong's complicity with the Americans. Shortly after the Pathet Lao took power in 1975?two years after the U.S. had fled the country and left...
...company’s spring concert includes original pieces by students as well as works by Boston choreographer Brenda Divelbliss, who leads weekly company-sponsored dance classes. The company draws on modern, hip-hop, jazz, ballet, and other styles for inspiration, and is the oldest student-controlled dance troop at Harvard. Friday and Saturday, April 24-25 at 8 p.m. $5. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Agassiz House, 10 Garden Street...
...implication that the media shelter the public from some news - or shelter that news from the public - is frustrating to journalists, in part because it's true. Reporting is full of noble and not-so-noble compromises. You keep troop movements secret. You leave certain subjects off limits in order to secure an exclusive with a certain ingenue. You don't ask a question that's begging to be asked - so you'll get called on at the next press conference. You do it out of decency or out of caution or, you tell yourself, to build the capital...