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...confiscate the equipment and weapons of deserters to prevent them from aiding the insurgents. In the Shi'ite-dominated south, Iraqi police watched idly as members of al-Sadr's Medhi Army seized their buildings, weapons and vehicles. The inability or unwillingness of the Iraqis to help suppress the twin uprisings forced U.S. officials to admit publicly last week what many have assumed for months. General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), says Iraqi security forces won't be ready to assume control until September at the earliest...
DIED. NORRIS MCWHIRTER, 78, who with his identical twin brother Ross co-founded the best-selling Guinness Book of Records in 1955 after being commissioned by the head of the Guinness brewery to create a reference for settling arguments between drinking buddies; in Wiltshire, England. The brothers--Oxford graduates, track stars and sports journalists--were also right-wing political activists, and Ross was murdered by the I.R.A. in 1975. Norris played his own role in one record performance in 1954: he was the announcer who described Roger Bannister's breaking of the 4-min.-mile barrier...
Unfortunately, wide-eyed pre-frosh were misled into the false belief that we have a thriving campus social scene. Au contraire. The painful reality is that last weekend was an anomaly—a sore thumb of fun. Between the twin weekend pillars of The Game and Prefrosh Weekend, there is a vast emptiness of lackluster Fridays, silent Saturdays, and siesta Sundays. the College often seems like the Un-College; campus-wide events, parties and concerts are few and far between...
...chilly spring day, Slavitt stands in front of the Star Market at Somerville’s Twin Cities Plaza, a slowly sinking strip mall. A closed Mars Music store sits entombed at one end of the lot, its windows revealing a dark and empty interior. Drab storefronts advertise a Fleet Bank, Dunkin’ Donuts and SuperCuts. Shoppers carry grocery bags to their cars...
...analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she ordered up before the Twin Towers came crashing down. Had Americans known then that so many worries and so many warnings over so many years had produced so little response in the government agencies assigned to protect us, the future would have looked far scarier on Sept. 12 than the images that had just been burned into...