March 07, 2005 | 26 Muharram 1426 Hijriah
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The ClipboardArmy worries about quality
Struggling to boost its ranks, the Army is recruiting a higher number of high school dropouts and recruits who score in the lowest category on military aptitude tests, raising concerns among senior officers and defense analysts that the quality of...
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The ClipboardJunkie Science
Now fast-forward to the Bush administration. The Washington Post recently ran an extraordinary editorial revealing that, in justifying the decision to oppose needle-exchange programs (which are especially disliked by religious conservatives), a Bush official directed the paper "to a number...
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veiled4allahoccupation, not tyranny alone, causes terrorism
Juan Cole makes an important distinction and says that the cause of radical Muslim terrorism is not so much authoritarian governments as foreign military occupation. Thus the Bush Administration's policy to remove authoritarian governments in the Middle East and (apparently)...
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The ClipboardWhite House use of privilege draws criticism
The Bush administration is aggressively wielding a rarely used executive power known as the state-secrets privilege in an attempt to squash hard-hitting court challenges to its anti-terrorism campaign. How the White House is using this privilege, not a law but...
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The ClipboardShootings by U.S. at Iraq Checkpoints Questioned
The deadly shooting of an Italian intelligence officer by U.S. troops at a checkpoint near Baghdad on Friday was one of many incidents in which civilians have been killed by mistake at checkpoints in Iraq, including local police officers, women...
