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...went to see William Freidkin's new film, Rules of Engagement. Remember in A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson finally confesses, uttering the immortal lines, "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" Imagine a similar scene. On the stand is Samuel L. Jackson portraying Col. Terry Childers. The fresh-out-of-law school idealistic and handsome prosecutor who replaces Tom Cruise is Guy Pearce of L.A.Confidential fame. Don't ask what accent this Australian is trying to imitate. Jackson's confession goes more like this: "Yes. Innocent people probably died." He stands up and yells...
Other panelists are retired Army Gen. Robert W. Riscassi, former Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command; Pete McCloskey, a former U.S. Representative from California; Donald P. Gregg, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea; retired Army Col. Young O. Kim and Don Oberdorfer, an accomplished journalist. Most of the panelists served in the military in Korea at some point in their careers...
...importantly is the fact, amid massive allegations of Chinese tampering--stealing nuclear technology and spying in several of our most top-secret labs--that they also tried to influence our Presidential elections. Testifying before a Senate committee, Chung revealed that $200,000 of the money had come from Lieut. Col. Liu Chaoying, a Chinese military officer and aerospace executive who reportedly said to Chung when he give him the money, "We like your President. We want...
Williams has about 2,000 students; many juniors go abroad every semester. If you're into mascots, ours is the Eph. And no, there is no such thing as an Eph--it's the nickname of our founder, Col. Ephraim Williams. The physical representation of the Eph is a purple cow. Personally, I've never seen one. But I'd rather see than be one, as the poem goes...
...evening began with two 20-minute speeches by Charles Crawford, a Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WFCIA) fellow and former British ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Col. Michael W. Alvis, another WFCIA fellow and former military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army...