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Nancy Tobin ’49, research chair for the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, said Harvard needs more transparency in hiring, including gender breakdowns by department—not only by the current humanities, social sciences and natural sciences breakdown...
Earlier this summer, Jeffrey Denner, who was Pring-Wilson’s original lawyer, left the case because of what he called a “breakdown in communication” with the defendant. His replacement, Mark Berthiaume, also quit the defense this summer...
More than 1,100 coalition troops have died in Iraq, and thousands more have been wounded. If you're looking for a more detailed breakdown of these numbers, check out ICASUALTIES.ORG, a website that provides data based on official death counts from coalition countries, including each soldier's name, hometown, unit and date of death. The names of the deceased can be viewed by time period and type of incident...
...authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization at war with another ... [I]t is a tale of cross-contamination, the spread of bad ideas." Thus, many Muslims see the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers not as a breakdown of the system but as typical of the West's depravity. Buruma and Margalit sometimes stretch the analogies between European antimodernism and Islamic fundamentalism too far - as when they compare a T.S. Eliot poem denouncing the ungodliness of modern cities to the frenzy that prompted the attack on the World Trade...
Some believe the breakdown in law and order has contributed to the spike in honor killings. An unintended consequence of Saddam's fall is that there are fewer restraints on violent young men bent on taking matters into their own hands. Last September, Ali Jasib Mushiji, 17, shot his mother and half brother because he suspected them of having an affair and killed his 4-year-old sister because he thought she was their child. Sitting in a jail cell in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, he says he wiped out his family to cleanse its shame...