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...spite of what seemed to be inevitable doom, in spite of hundreds of thousands of fleeing party apparatchiks, Stalin remained in Moscow. In a speech on Nov. 6, 1941, the eve of the 24th anniversary of the Bolshevik takeover, he cast the enemy as beasts. "It is these people without honor or conscience, these people with the morality of animals, who have the effrontery to call for the extermination of the great Russian nation." Patriotic Russians would never let that happen. "No mercy for the German invaders," he said. In Red Square the next day, he again sought to rein...
Before this whitewashing, William and Mary was ranked 19th in the nation, while Harvard held the 24th ranking...
...National Guard appears to exemplify all that can go wrong with the Total Force policy. Some $40 million a year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...
...when the 24th Division was rushed to the gulf last August, the 48th, which was finally called up on Nov. 30, was replaced by a regular Army brigade. In December the 48th was put through a rigorous desert-warfare program at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. It was not until Feb. 28, the day the gulf war ended, that the 48th was deemed fit to fight...
...drizzling lightly when he arrived in Cambridge on the 24th of March, but Neil L. Rudenstine was in high spirits when he was introduced to the world that day as Harvard University's next president...