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...experience, technological prowess and $100 million-plus budgets of teams like U.S. entry BMW-Oracle (put together by software billionaire Larry Ellison) or some of the European entries. The team has broken a mast and collided with a whale during a training run on Cape Town's Table Bay. Lacking sponsorship, they spent their first year racing in an obsolete, secondhand Cup vessel bought on the cheap. Burricks, the youngest team member, is only...
This administration repeats lessons from our recent past. Both the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Vietnam War were also partly caused by groupthink, in which decision makers took advice only from those who shared their ideas. Bush was elected in part as the education President. An educated person should critically evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses--in this case, that Iraq had WMDs and was supporting al-Qaeda. For that, I give him an F in critical thinking and in leadership...
...Sanchez, former overall Army commander in Iraq; and Col. Pappas, Jordan's superior, who, with a grant of immunity, may also testify against him at trial. Finally, Jordan could potentially shed light on the mission of Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commandant of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was sent to Abu Ghraib in 2003 to advise on enhanced interrogation methods that it was hoped would produce better intelligence. The Abu Ghraib scandal erupted not long after Gen. Miller's departure from Abu Ghraib...
...Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died Jan. 5, hours after arriving at a juvenile boot camp for stealing his grandmother's car and violating probation. A local coroner says sickle cell trait, not an altercation with boot camp guards, killed Anderson. But an eerily silent surveillance video shows Bay County deputies restraining, kicking and punching the boy, who at times appeared limp and unable to comply. The results of a second autopsy remain secret, but at least one coroner involved says the youth did not die of sickle cell, or any other natural causes...
...Following Anderson's death, Florida officials shut down the Bay County boot camp while state lawmakers scrambled to improve standards at the handful of remaining programs. But that hasn't been enough to satisfy critics of the handling of the incident...