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That's why building trust in middle-class Sunni enclaves like Mansour has become a key component of the military's counterinsurgency strategy. "We're in competition with al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Dale Kuehl, "for who can protect the Sunnis better." Baghdad's Sunni population is largely confined to a narrow band west of the Tigris, extending from Mansour to the Baghdad airport. Kuehl and his 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center...
...journals and periodicals and a growing archive of some 40 million student papers. More than 7,000 educational institutions use the system, including Harvard and Oxford. But while Turnitin lets faculty level the playing field, many students--even the straight arrows--see its use as a breach of trust...
...being at odds with each other. The Air Force Academy, which expelled 15 first-year cadets this month for cheating, takes great pride in its honor code but also checks for plagiarism. Says Joey Smith, 22, chairman of the cadets' honor committee: "It's the whole idea of trust but verify...
Which is why it would be a shame if the McLean Committee for Student Rights succeeds in dismantling Turnitin. Yes, it is important to trust students. But an equally important lesson is that cheating shouldn't be rewarded. What's so terrible about making students think long and hard when an affordable term paper is just a click away...
...picture she looked proud. Her magazine folded temporarily when the money ran out, and then last semester she decided to go to Paris for study abroad. Now, more than a year later, she and her friends are back with issue two on a grant from the Ann Radcliffe Trust and things are looking a little different. Sebastian says the goal was to grow up—to make the articles more serious than last time, more carefully researched. The issue, at 60 pages, is heavy with an impulse towards that vague notion of “substance” that...