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Doing well in any of these requirements depends heavily on knowledge of the course material. But there is also a considerable degree to which each of these requirements depends heavily on factors outside the course material. One example is writing ability--a weak writer with a strong command of the course material may often receive a lower grade on an essay assignment, compared to a stronger writer with a weaker command of the material. Identification (ID) questions (particularly when the ID's themselves are distributed ahead of time) test sheer memorization more than they evaluate conceptual understanding...
Despite the fact that first-years and upperclass students technically conform to the same College rules, practical differences in administrative chains of command lead to different results in the Yard and in the Houses...
When the Marines stripped Lieut. Colonel Odin Leberman of his command of the corps' lone V-22 Osprey squadron, Leberman admitted that he had told his mechanics to falsify maintenance records to make the troubled aircraft look better. The Osprey, despite 18 years of work and a $12 billion taxpayer investment, needed all the help it could get. Two crashes in the space of eight months had killed 23 Marines, aggravating concerns of the Pentagon about the aircraft's reliability as it weighed going into full-scale production. But now, as the Pentagon begins full-blown probes into both...
...excesses committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign. And yet in his answers to Judge Guzman, Pinochet was not exactly heroic. In fact, it looks an awful lot like the man who'd headed the junta was trying to shift responsibility back down the chain of command, to the officers in charge of those garrisons visited by the "Caravan of Death." And, of course, the military is having none of it. They've always relied on the Nuremberg defense - "just following orders." Pinochet had for years maintained that his regime had done nothing to be ashamed...
When the marines stripped Lieut. Colonel Odin Leberman of his command of the corps' lone V-22 Osprey squadron, Leberman admitted that he had told his mechanics to falsify maintenance records to make the troubled aircraft look better. The Osprey, despite 18 years of work and a $12 billion taxpayer investment, needed all the help it could get. Two crashes in the space of eight months had killed 23 Marines, aggravating concerns at the Pentagon about the aircraft's reliability as it weighed going into full-scale production. But now, as the Pentagon begins full-blown probes into both...