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...Putting Iraqis on the front lines, U.S. officials say, is yielding results in the shadow war against the insurgents. When the key to unraveling insurgencies is denying the rebels the support of the population, putting an Iraqi face on the offensives is vital. It also helps avoid blunders. Often targeting information is slightly off, with troops raiding the wrong house. Local Iraqis are loath to point the Americans in the right direction. "They're not scared of Americans, but when an Iraqi in a ski mask confronts them they talk a lot more, and they're more likely...
Investigations during the next twelve hours, while the entire Atlantic seaboard mobilized public and semi-public posses to catch the kidnappers, revealed no vital clue. A ladder in three sections was discovered abandoned in shrubbery near the house. Officials satisfied themselves that it was the one used to gain access to the nursery. Contrary to original report, the female footprints found nearby have never been connected with the crime, might have been made by servants or family on routine missions about the grounds. Two sets of male footprints--sizes No. 8 and No. 10--were found about the ladder...
...interfere with the detection of a crime. I think I appreciate the importance of a free press. But I am quite unable to believe that the Press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clues which are vital to the detection of a crime. . . . It is often said that hard cases do not make good law. The Lindbergh case is certainly a hard case...
...panned Diary didn’t seem to understand the film’s important social function or its cult appeal. Their efforts to critique the film according to the usual measures of genre, tone, and theme failed to capture essence of what made the movie so appealing and vital...
...meeting,” James R. Houghton ’58, senior fellow of the Corporation, said in the statement. “We of course take seriously the views of faculty across Harvard, as all of us move forward to advance the University’s vital academic aims...