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...have car), Boston has a secret: Beantown is home to one of the best drum ’n’ bass scenes in America. Great, you say—what the hell does that mean? Here’s how to be rolling downtown like a pro junglist soldier in no time...
...support an invasion against Iraq during the siege of Palestinian cities. The greatest source of contempt toward the U.S. in the Arab world is Washington’s one-sided approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rightly or wrongly, Arabs blame the United States every time an Israeli soldier maims a Palestinian civilian. The billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid that pour into Israel every year and Washington’s refusal to put pressure on Israel when it uses excessive force have led Arabs to believe that the U.S. is complicit in Israel’s crimes...
...hand grenades. Further protection against bullets is provided by two Small Arms Protective Inserts, ceramic plates weighing 4 lbs. apiece, which are slipped into pockets on the front and back of the vest. The whole outfit costs the Army $1,500 and adds just 16 lbs. to a soldier's gear, making it likelier than the old Kevlar vest (which weighed in at 25 lbs.) to be worn in all combat situations...
Beach-Bunker Bingo The soldier glared as he came out of the bunker, AK-47 first. His comrades watched from behind mounted machine guns as he leaned down and asked curt questions. Where were we going? How long would we stay? He stood up, squinted at our bags, and finally waved us through, convinced we weren't guerrilla operatives. We were just going to the beach...
...contemplate, our military must meet very real threats in the world. Though doubt may be a praiseworthy characteristic in an academic, a similar lack of certitude in war leads to troubled places. And war, unlike a point, cannot always be avoided. Where incredulity serves the scholar, conviction maintains the soldier and if the battle must be cast in terms of good and evil to be won, so be it. Who are we to take the consolation of right away from a dying soldier, to ask that he fight while denying the justice of his cause? The military and the university...