Word: combated
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...exist in the other services. While Neidig believes the Army is ahead of the civilian world in confronting the issue, Army officials admit they are only starting to understand the extent of the problem. "We were being very reactionary," explains Delores Johnson, who heads the service's program to combat such abuse. Rather than trying to prevent it, the Army emphasized medical and legal help after the violence occurred. "We're just beginning to take a look at what prevention means," says Johnson. The Army study, which is designed to identify groups at high risk of domestic violence, found evidence...
...earlier study had already found a correlation between combat jobs and domestic violence. Troops trained to fight are more likely to batter children than their uniformed colleagues in noncombat jobs, according to a 1979 study of 985 cases of child abuse among Air Force personnel by the University of New Hampshire. "There's a spillover from what one does in one sphere of life in one role to what one does in other roles," says Murray Straus, a University of New Hampshire family-violence expert who worked on the study. "If you're in an occupation whose business is killing...
...Vietnam War has claimed its victims in various dreadful ways, but the death last week of Lewis B. Puller Jr. seemed particularly haunting. Puller, the son of the most decorated member of the Marine Corps in its history, served in Vietnam as a Marine combat leader. Both his legs and part of his hands were blown off when he stepped on a booby trap. He lived, and he became an attorney at the Pentagon and a respected veterans activist. Then, in 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, Fortunate Son. Yet his life had recently come to seem...
...Honor Committee drafted the code to combat what some perceive as ethical problems among Business School students...
Americans inhabit, so to speak, two parallel realities. There is the virtual reality created by media spinning and cultural circuses and gladiatorial spectacles of exemplary pseudomoral combat (Harding v. Kerrigan, Bobbitt v. Bobbitt) -- an intimate cartoonish universe where the member is severed and sewn back on. And then there is the reality of . . . reality. Places like, say, Bosnia and Haiti belong to the reality of reality...