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...Percentage of female graduates from the class of 2003 who said in an initial survey on sexual assault that they had been victims of rape or attempted rape during their time at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
After a series of escalating confrontations between Byrne and several of Trombly’s friends on Sept. 7 and 8, 2001, Trombly was arrested for charges including assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. All charges against him were dropped, but the BPD’s Anti-Corruption Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation soon began to examine Trombly’s allegations of abuse, producing a federal indictment in January 2002. Byrne has been suspended from active duty since October...
...hundreds of parents in the U.K. to be accused in recent years of making their children ill or pretending that they are ill, thereby causing them to be subjected to unnecessary, potentially harmful medical procedures. In July, a Scottish court sentenced Susan Hamilton to four years in prison for assault and endangering her child's life. The court ruled that she had poisoned her now brain-damaged daughter with large doses of salt, prompting hospitalizations and doctors' visits over several years. Hamilton and her family say she was wrongly prosecuted. This kind of abuse was first given a name...
After a series of escalating confrontations between Byrne and several of Trombly's friends on Sept. 7 and 8, 2001, Trombly was arrested for charges including assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. All charges against him were dropped, but the BPD’s Anti-Corruption Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation soon began to examine Trombly’s allegations of abuse, producing a federal indictment in January 2002. Byrne has been suspended from active duty since October...
Even if the assault on the U.N. mission in Baghdad, apparently by a suicide truck bomber, would not have been prevented by a greater military presence in Iraq (troops can never guard every potential target), there are other signs that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin. More than a few heads snapped when Peter Schoomaker, the yanked-from-retirement general who is now the Army Chief of Staff, said in his confirmation hearing in late July that he "intuitively" thought "we need more people." His gut feeling apparently changed after Rumsfeld howled that Schoomaker's remarks had been distorted...