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...must be voted “yes” by 2/3 of the members presently voting at a meeting. * A member who is out of the room for any part of the discussion for a punch may NOT vote on that punch. * Members may abstain from voting in the 2nd and 3rd rounds if they feel they do not have enough information to make a decision about a punch. In general, however, members should try to abstain from abstaining (haha!) whenever possible. * Abstensions are not allowed in the final cut. * A member may throw a ‘black ball?...
...Below are loose estimates for how many punches we would like to have at each round of punch: 1st event: ~120 (presently: ~148) 2nd event: ~80 3rd event: ~45 Final Dinner: ~30-32 Invitations of Membership...
Throughout the flooded streets of New Orleans, if Coast Guard boat crews lost radio communication, they still knew what to do. "We give extraordinary, life-and-death responsibilities to 2nd class petty officers," says former Coast Guard Commandant James Loy, now retired and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a Washington consulting firm. Anna Steel, 24, a Coast Guard reservist from St. Louis, Mo., began navigating her 16-ft. skiff through New Orleans neighborhoods three days after the storm hit. She and her crewman brought 35 people to dry land at a highway on-ramp marked, appropriately enough, Elysian...
...wounded. The surge in violence comes at an inopportune time for the Pentagon, which wants to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and turn over more of the combat burden to NATO, whose role is now limited to peacekeeping. Four days spent with Turner's Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the badlands of southern Afghanistan provides a glimpse of how one group of soldiers sustains its morale and mettle while up against an often ghostly enemy. Even as the military struggles to extricate itself from Iraq, it still has a fight...
...about May of 1945, we relocated to Tinian. And around August 1st, we got a message from Washington, that the use of bomb had been released by the President. But it should not be dropped before the 2nd of August. The real limitation from then on was the weather in Japan. The first permissible weather was on the 6th of August. Our mission [Nagasaki] would be on the 9th. It had pretty much been...