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Turning his back to five hundred empty seats that will be filled this time next week, choreographer David F. “Ricky” Kuperman ’11 calls out instructions as the dancers mark individual movements and walk through formations. When Kuperman requests a full-out execution of a few eight-counts, the dancers unveil a spectacular range of movement, collectively brushing through a front “attitude” position into a stag leap and “chasse” effortlessly into two diagonal lines...
When swine flu made national headlines last spring, it wasn’t the first time. A similar flu scare began in February, 1976, with the sudden death of 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was found to have been killed by “swine flu,” a virus thought to resemble the one responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic. On the advice of worried health officials, president Gerald Ford ordered the implementation of a mass inoculation program. Unfortunately, reports surfaced that the vaccine was causing people to develop...
...Election Commission’s announcement confirmed a third ticket, comprising outsider candidates Robert G.B. Long ’11 and David R. Johnson...
Pottawattamie County prosecutors David Richter and Joseph Hrvol presented a case that rested almost entirely on the testimony of a 16-year-old kid who was caught stealing cars and offered a $5,000 reward if he provided information about the murder. The witness misidentified the murder weapon, changed his story multiple times and fingered two other men before naming McGhee and Harrington in the crime. He even had to be coached by prosecutors about what to say during the trial so that his story matched the evidence. Richter and Hrvol revealed none of this at trial, nor the fact...
...first time. The impetus came not from the State Department but from the military, where counterinsurgency doctrine demanded that social services in war zones - schools, justice, economic development - reinforce the military's efforts to secure the population. As a result, there was immediate chemistry between Clinton and General David Petraeus, author of the Army's counterinsurgency manual, who became one of her prime military mentors when she served on the Senate Armed Services Committee. At one point, well before Obama made his presidential intentions known, I asked Petraeus if there was any potential Democratic candidate who understood how his mind...