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...tapes are one more vivid manifestation of the military's greater problem: a seeming inability to police itself. In spite of leaders' repeated "zero tolerance" pronouncements--concerning political extremism, racism, sexual harassment and hazing--authorities are just as often forced to acknowledge a breakdown in the chain of command. Last week a sixth soldier at Maryland's Aberdeen training ground was brought up on charges of sexually harassing a trainee, while the Citadel, a military-training school, is in the midst of its own hazing scandal involving female cadets. Blood pinning cannot be written off as the overexcitement of young...
Furthermore, we are in the process of verifying the male/female breakdown of our organization. We will contact you if your numbers were inaccurate--if only to set the record straight. --William D. Zerhouni...
...promise he made in his opening statement to prove that Nicole recklessly consorted with drug dealers and prostitutes. On the defense witness list: Nicole's former friend Cora Fischman, who is expected to testify that at the time of her death Nicole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and obsessed with reuniting with O.J. All this could turn the jury off. "It is not likely to work," says Michael Seidman, professor of criminal law at the Georgetown University Law Center. "It doesn't explain a million things that Simpson has to explain. But I don't know that...
...Members of Congress Conference to Harvard after its brief departure in 1994. According to Forum Director Heather Campion, some 35 of 70 Republicans and Democrats who received invites to this year's New Member ho-down have RSVP'd in the affirmative, though she declined to cite party breakdown. Campion and other K-School administrators will point out that Congress endorsed no official initiation program in 1994, but it was widely reported at the time that the new speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, instructed his newfound acolytes to attend a conference at the ultra-conservative Brookings Institution in Baltimore...
...Alpha Company. And another drill sergeant with the 143rd was booted from the service earlier in Utzig's tenure for inappropriately touching a female student. This may have led Utzig and others to believe the problems were being properly handled, but it could also have masked a more serious breakdown in the chain of command that allowed some officers to feel their misbehavior would be tolerated. "It is hard to believe that other drill instructors at Aberdeen were completely blind as to what was happening," says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. A female officer with a decade...