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...could adopt in taking on Baghdad. Robert Scales, a retired major general who used to run the U.S. Army War College, says the Americans should avoid door-to-door battles and instead cordon off the capital with a loose chain of tanks and armored vehicles. This porous ring would allow civilians to flee the city center, where Saddam's soldiers--and perhaps the Iraqi leader himself--would be holed up, anxiously waiting for a "mother of all battles" that would never materialize. "You can be patient, with a minimum loss of life," says Scales, "or you can rush...
...will be in this spirit that the bells of Memorial Church will not ring at 8:46 a.m.—though bells throughout the nation will toll at this time, exactly a year after the first plane hit the North Tower...
Edington said that at Harvard, in contrast, the bells are traditionally reserved for the start of a ceremony and so they will ring, instead, at noon...
Along with Lowell House and many cities throughout the nation, the City of Cambridge will ring its City Hall bells...
...with fellow New Yorkers to express our opposition to state terrorism in response to our tragedy,” Elfenbein wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “Tomorrow I’m going to a local church to participate in a ceremony where I will help to ring the bell 3,000 times to commemorate the victims of a year...