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...don’t tell” has been upheld in courts repeatedly, third-year law student Lindsay Harrison said no one has challenged its constitutionality applied only to the lawyers’ JAG program—where a gay soldier’s impact on combat effectiveness could not be at issue...
Warren says the institute will need to make adjustments to internal structure as well as external relationships to combat negative perceptions...
...much out of it,” he says. “They mentioned at the beginning of the year that they had a big problem with people dropping out at the end of their freshman and sophomore years, but they didn’t do anything to combat...
This is American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...chair of the city council committee on housing, Galluccio has had hands-on experience dealing with the housing crunch in one of the cities under the greatest strain to maintain its affordability. He has been making a solid effort to combat the effects of gentrification. His approach—focusing city, state and federal resources to help create more units of affordable housing—is a creative strategy to a problem that can often be seen as a parochial concern. At the same time, his demand for accountability by local universities to help house their graduate student populations shows...