Word: concernments
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...applaud your concern for integrity at The Crimson, but, in the case of your cartoonist, what I hope was only your initial reaction was incorrect...
...Cardona's physical well-being was not the only issue of concern connected to his aborted transfer to Iraq. According to former senior U.S. military officers and others interviewed by TIME, sending a convicted abuser back to Iraq to train local police would have sent the wrong signal at a time when the U.S. is trying to bolster the beleaguered government in Baghdad, where the horrors of Abu Ghraib are far from forgotten. "If news of this deployment is accurate, it represents appallingly bad judgment," says retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded a division in the first Gulf...
...women, their actual weight and any manifestations of it—namely clothing sizes—can become integral parts of their identity. Now, living as we are in an era of the size zero and a constant bombardment of images of ever-shrinking celebrity women, there is more concern than ever that women’s self-images are being pushed in an extremely unhealthy direction by a combination of forces...
...feel better about their bodies. However, the continual addition of ever smaller sizes and the use of tiny models for advertising send the unintended message that it is perfectly acceptable, and perhaps desirable, for women to aspire to rail-thin figures. If the fashion industry really has any concern for its consumers, rather than simultaneously lying to us and advancing conformity to precarious celebrity trends, it should focus on encouraging American women to find a healthy, happy medium...
...Maliki's concern for his Shi'ite political base - which includes Moqtada al-Sadr, whose sectarian militia, the Mahdi Army, is believed to be the target of the U.S. operation in Baghdad - drives his objections to U.S. plans. Without the backing of that base he becomes simply another Iraqi politician backed by Washington but rejected by his own electorate - like Washington's erstwhile "man in Iraq," former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Maliki agrees in principle that Shi'ite political militias must be disbanded or brought under government control. But he also believes this can't be done as long...