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...approaching the turkey’s territory. To our surprise and disappointment, the turkey isn’t there. We go around the campus again—maybe the rain had forced it to hide. Around and around we walk until the last rays of light slowly vanish. We call it quits—for now—and return the following...
...Joyce characterized relations between BC and the city as “strained.” She pointed to BC President William P. Leahy’s call for university alumni and employees to encourage city officials to support the expansion as an example of BC’s mistaken approach to winning over the community...
...election day. But when it comes to the vast rosters of local and state candidates running for office in November, few people are as knowledgeable—a fact that Harvard Business School student Summer M. Nemeth intends to change,.Nemeth’s project, a new Web site called Imagine Election, allows Massachusetts residents to find personalized information about their local candidates by typing in their home address.The site is aimed particularly at students, who often go out of state for school, and may therefore be less prepared when asked to vote on candidates from their home state...
...that the ANA is still too small to tie brigades down to high-risk districts when the mobile forces are required to clear other insecure areas. Instead, police districts that have gone through FDD are paired with U.S. military mentor teams that are able to provide back up and call in air support. "My goal is to keep small numbers of westerners in key positions," says Cone. "If the police have Americans with them when the bad guys roll in, in a short period of time you get on the radio and you have American or coalition air power overhead...
...Police into a professional force will take years. Khalil is simply a minor player on the bottom rungs of a ladder that goes much higher. "Right now there are too many people who can pick up a phone and say to their man in the Ministry of the Interior, 'Call down and move 200 guys this way,' or 'look the other way on this,'" says Cone. "Reform will be essential to fixing the police...