With New Hampshire's Democratic primary just over three months away, there was more than the usual brightly colored leaves, apple cider and prize-winning pumpkins at this weekend's Warner Fall Foliage Festival. As part of a weekend-long trip through the Granite State, Sen.
In an interview with The Dartmouth, Elizabeth Edwards discussed a life on the road, making the grade, and the perils of "yes-men." The D: Your husband talks a lot about his humble origins on the campaign trail.
On May 1, President Bush took to the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to announce the formal close of Operation Iraqi Freedom's combat operations. On the heels of a dominant coalition rout of Saddam loyalists and the ensuing fall of Baghdad in mid-April, the celebratory event marked a triumphant conclusion to a U.S.
On April 4, a story on the front page of The New York Times proclaimed: "It is not easy being an old lefty on campus in this war." Shelby Grantham, senior lecturer in English and faculty advisor to the student group Why War, believes this campus is an exception. "The question that those of us who protested the war must ask is: 'What do we do now?'" Grantham said.
Nearly a month after U.S. warplanes opened the war against Iraq on March 19, President George Bush yesterday publicly affirmed the result: "the regime of Saddam Hussein is no more." The focus of the U.S.-led coalition and of ordinary Iraqis has now shifted away from how the war will end to a new question: What comes next? The Short Term Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has placed retired Lt.
Yesterday U.S. forces continued thrusts into Baghdad and held on to several symbolic sites within the city in the wake of a downtown bunker-buster bombing that may have killed Saddam Hussein on Monday afternoon. Government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press, who has recently appeared on CBS, CNN and the Upper Valley's own WMUR to present his analysis, expressed surprise about the ineptitude of Saddam's loyalist forces fighting on Baghdad's boulevards but stressed that the American-led coalition still controls only a small portion of the Iraqi capital. After seizing and holding a presidential palace and the Information Ministry in downtown Baghdad on Monday, U.S.
Fighting on capital's outskirts kills estimated 1,000-3,000 Iraqis
Former ambassador says Berlin remains 'very strong' ally
Dartmouth government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press joined such national luminaries as Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman on the March 26 editorial page of The New York Times to analyze the course a battle for Baghdad might take. "The basic argument is a good news/bad news story," Press explained to The Dartmouth.
Bombs rock Iraqi capital as coalition forces press onward