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Another will tackle the question of teaching basic science and technology, and a third committee will coordinate advising and counseling, including the possibility of assigning freshman students to upperclass Houses...
...relating tastes, smells and sights of wine with the basic vocabulary of wine enthusiasts, White said she hoped to give students confidence in shopping for wines and ordering off a wine list...
Journalists and politicos have been trying off and on for a decade now to suss out exactly what George W. Bush did in the National Guard more than 30 years ago. The basic facts are not very mysterious: Bush got a coveted homeland gig in the Guard, just as many other well-connected college graduates did, while hundreds of thousands of other young men got drafted and sent to Vietnam. Ever since Bush ran for Texas Governor in 1994, details of the subplot have dribbled out, suggesting that he was a slacker in his later days as a pilot...
...shopkeepers and the ABCs of Kabbalah. Sartorially challenged men can pick up Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them (Dutton; 168 pages) by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The Fab Fiver has a take on everything from basic questions like boxers or briefs to weightier dilemmas like the blurry line between metrosexual and gay (hint: manicures, metro; French manicures, gay). --By Kate Novack
...There are, however, considerable grounds for skepticism over the extent to which the training of Iraqi forces can transform the situation. Military training involves imparting combat skills and organizational discipline to create efficient fighting units with high levels of morale and confidence. By measure of basic combat skills and organization, the Iraqi security forces may already be substantially superior to Moqtada Sadr's rag-tag Mehdi army, which is composed largely of unemployed young toughs from the Shiite urban ghettoes. The difference between them on the battlefield, however, is based on morale and confidence - in other words, on motivation...