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...year-old Marine corporal Martin knows who was discharged after finishing a tour of duty in Iraq. For months he watched the news from Iraq obsessively and was worried about "my guys over there." Then one day he began weeping uncontrollably. Martin calls this a "breakthrough," not a breakdown. It's what finally prompted him to get help...
...years earlier, on a humiliatingly unsuccessful attempt at opening new sales territory. Clearly far too introverted and insecure for such a task, he gets turned away from shop after shop while his brother's patronizing, scowling face seems to follow him everywhere. Eventually he has a bit of a breakdown, wandering aimlessly through a fantastical miniature golf course until quietly sitting under a tree. Using remarkable understatement the Simon sequence gets at the drama that governs our actual lives: succeeding or failing at ordinary but important events...
Also in May, Pring-Wilson’s attorney, Jeffrey A. Denner, filed to withdraw from the case, citing “irreconcilable differences” and “a breakdown in communication” with the defendant...
...anyone up the line was to blame, they said, it was the MP commander, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who paid too little attention to her rogue company. "My assessment," said Lieut. General Keith Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, "is there was a complete breakdown of discipline on the MP side." He was seconded on that point by Major General Antonio Taguba, author of the scathing Army inquiry, who bluntly defined the problem as a "failure of leadership; lack of discipline; no training whatsoever; and no supervision...
Also in the last week, Pring-Wilson’s attorney, Jeffrey A. Denner, filed to withdraw from the case, citing “irreconcilable differences” and “a breakdown in communication” with the defendant...