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According to the Pentagon, less than half of Iraq's forces are combat ready. But that perception may be based on an unnecessarily strict standard. For instance, the Defense Department doesn't consider an Iraqi unit ready to fight until it can sustain itself with supplies, intelligence and communications--a combination that takes U.S. forces years to develop. A Pentagon official said last week that 87,000 of the 212,000 Iraqis that the Defense Department classifies as "trained and equipped" are actually "in the fight," meaning fully capable of planning and waging active combat. The Iraqis have taken over...
BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD THE MIKE JUDGE COLLECTION, VOL. 1 MTV sells a dream: coolness and popularity. Creator Judge's Beavis was the antidream, embodied in two MTV-watching cretins with a taste for dirty jokes ("Heh heh heh. You said unit"). The cartoons--40 of them selected here--satirized '90s teen culture while snidely trashing music videos. TV rarely critiques itself with such pith. Heh heh heh. I said pith...
Since July, 1 in 3 platoon members has been killed or hurt. "All of my squad leaders and section leaders have been wounded," says the platoon leader, 2nd Lieut. Joe Walker, a South Carolinian who volunteered to fight after 9/11. "For a while, our unit was fighting at less than 70%, and we're still below 60% on our vehicles--so many Bradleys have been blown...
...decade, and the group had been together nearly that long, without getting very far. The "sound" needed songs to encase it, bring out the power and drama behind its freakishness. In the early '60s-before the blooming of the singer-songwriter, before performers were routinely called artists, before the unit of music was an album-groups relied on songwriters and producers to give them hit singles. The Drifters had Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller producing their hits, and a gang of young pros in the Brill Building (Goffin and King, Pomus and Shuman) writing them. The Seasons were lucky...
...Some seniors graduate only knowing a handful of people, many just two to three blocking groups in their House. Some sophomores barely know anybody beyond their blocking group (perhaps they meet a new one each year). It seems that blocking groups have now assumed the role of the natural unit of community at Harvard. They’re stuffed in one location and asked to get along. But they often don’t, and often blocking groups themselves fall apart. They are too small and tend to be too poorly-chosen to last...