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Some battlefield acts are so clearly contrary to the training and ethos of Marines and all service members that they remain unacceptable in any circumstance. A basic law of war is that noncombatants may never be purposely targeted. Today's Marine is better educated, better trained and better led than ever before. Marines of all ranks are aware of the standards of battlefield conduct. Yet there apparently was a disregard of those standards by a very few. Even in a combat zone, one can commit murder, and Haditha looks like such a case...
Doherty heard from a YMCA camp counselor about the number of kids who arrive with a list of foods they won't eat and who require basic instruction from counselors on how to share a meal. "They have to teach them how to pass food around and serve each other. The kids have to learn how to eat what's there. And they have to learn how to remain seated until everyone else is done." The University of Kansas and Michigan State offer students coaching on how to handle a business lunch, including what to do about food they...
...divided over the change. Thimann and Associate Professor of Chemistry Leonard K. Nash ’39 strongly supported the proposal, and Master of Leverett House and Professor of Zoology Leigh Hoadley was against it. The Biochemical Sciences concentration was popular among premeds since it allowed them to satisfy basic premed requirements in biology, chemistry, and physics while giving them the most flexibility in choosing electives. BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO SCIENCE As the 2005-2006 academic year came to a close, the Faculty Council voted to revamp the life science concentrations, adding five new concentrations and removing...
...just one of the most amazing experiences of my life,†says Peskin. “He was saying, ‘I see the big picture. You can see it too. Here’s how it goes.â€The basic idea of RG theory is to study the variation in the importance of certain properties at a smaller or larger scale. For example, think of a large pile of tuna sandwiches. On a small scale, there are large differences in the consistency of this pile—the bread is different from the tuna...
...civilians dead as planes battered Taliban fighters. Even before the convoy accident, Western diplomats say many frustrated young men were already looking for a provocation. "Underlying it all is the fact that young men have not seen any tangible change in their lives in terms of either jobs or basic services," said aid worker Holly Ritchie, who works for a British charity in Kabul. Much of their anger is directed squarely at the very people ostensibly in the country to help, the foreign aid agencies who oversee a portion of the billions of dollars in aid money that has flowed...