Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave the rebels plenty of time to organize and arm. A barrage of air strikes failed to do anything but stiffen resistance. Once the fight was joined, the Chechens made hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails. Yet at the end of December he did it. Forgetting the cardinal rule that infantry...
Harvard's next test will come tomorrow night at Army, where the Crimson will take on a Cadet team that Sullivan said is on a similar level of rebuilding...
...legal team) hopes to change the place. After their initial victory, her lawyers asked Houck to excuse her from the traditional knob crew cut, on the shaky grounds that it would stigmatize her as a woman. More sensibly, given recent threats on Faulkner's life and fear of cadet harassment, attorney Sara Mandelbaum promised, "We'll be monitoring Shannon's progress closely -- and we'll hold the administration accountable...
Then at the last moment, the South rose again. On Friday an appeals court granted the Citadel a stay pending a hearing of arguments, which will probably take place in December. That will effectively postpone Faulkner's cadet debut for at least a year. For now she intends to continue as a day student. She said, "I'd say I'm being selfish and doing this just for me. But I do, in a way, think it's for women who might follow...
...appeals court blocks a woman's attempt to become a cadet...