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...aware that a Pentagon probe was under way and phoned "a longtime reliable source, a senior U.S. government official who was knowledgeable about the matter." The source told him that the report would contain the Koran incident. Looking for confirmation, Isikoff approached a spokesman for the Pentagon's Southern Command, which operates the Guantánamo prison. The spokesman declined to comment. John Barry, the magazine's national-security correspondent, took the unusual step of providing a draft of the item to a "senior Defense official." According to Newsweek's account, the official challenged one part of the article, which...
...mistake, that a nice liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like in the Army." The changes were necessary because sometimes "you can lose focus when...
Just after Sept. 11, Lennox was walking around the post with his command sergeant when a cadet approached him. The cadet told the general that he wanted to leave, enlist, get out there in the fight. The instinct made Lennox proud, but as more and more reports surfaced of students wanting to quit so they could be deployed right away, Lennox grew concerned. At dinner on Sept. 13, he stood looking out over the entire corps from the balcony high above the mess hall and delivered his message. "I preached tactical patience," he says. "I told them that they...
...Undergraduate Council has chosen its new second-in-command. Last Thursday, Council members elected Clay T. Capp ’06, who ran unsuccessfully for the post in December, to replace Ian W. Nichols ’06, who resigned the position on May 8. The circumstances of Capp’s selection, however, stand to deprive the new vice president of much needed legitimacy, and leave open to him just one honorable course of action: resignation...
...serve with any sort of mandate; he must resign to run in a special vice presidential election in the fall in which the student body—or, at the very least, the new Undergraduate Council membership—would have the chance to choose its second-in-command, and to grant or deny Capp the office that he now holds illegitimately...