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...Sadr has experienced a remarkable shift in fortune. A couple of months ago, he was a marginal nuisance. But since launching its uprising in April, his militia has turned southern Iraq into a grinding standoff for the overwhelmingly superior coalition forces. U.S. officials say the Mahdi Army has perhaps 5,000 fighters nationwide, but last Friday there were almost that many in Kufa and nearby Najaf, 6 miles away...
...universities, the curricular review has attempted to spin even the commonplace (study abroad) into a uniquely Harvard innovation (internationalization). Notably, U.S. News and World Report lists 42 schools where at least half its students study abroad, including nearby Wellesley. Even the most foundational change proposed by the review, a shift from the Core Curriculum to distribution requirements giving students “great freedom of choice,” is a long overdue synchronization with the academic programs of Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Imitation is flattery, and Harvard has been doing a lot of flattering. But as long...
...week of congressional hearings, lawmakers struggled to trace the links in the chain of command. The White House, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and top brass in the Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize...
Will hybrids go mainstream? Detroit economists are skeptical, arguing that it would take $4-per-gal. gas to significantly shift new-car buyers toward hybrids or other more fuel-efficient cars. The new hybrids will probably be priced a few thousand dollars above their conventional cousins; about $2,500 is typical now. (The Federal Government is offering a $1,500 tax deduction this year.) It's unclear whether consumers will want to spend the extra bucks if the fuel savings turn out to be minimal. But there's reason to believe that gas prices may not fall after the traditional...
...full-size SUVs, such as the Ford Excursion and Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, fell during the first four months of the year, with a sharp drop in April, while sales of GM's mighty Hummer H2 tanked 25%. Smaller SUVs and crossover models are gaining momentum. "The mix is shifting down, and that's something we haven't seen in quite a while," Girsky says. GM plans to temporarily halt assembly lines at an SUV plant near Oklahoma City, Okla., this week--one of the few times that rising SUV inventories have triggered such a closure. Nonetheless, GM officials insist...