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Still, listening to his ominous warnings and the bravado that comes easily to the former Delta Force commander, one has no difficulty imagining an empowered civilian getting carried away. And Americans generally have not reacted well to institutionalized nosiness. In 2002 the Justice Department proposed something called Operation TIPS, which would have encouraged not just truckers but also cable installers and mail carriers, among others, to report suspicious behavior. But before the program could begin, it was buried in opposition from the left and the right. Americans did not want to become a "nation of snitches," as the libertarian Cato...
...night of Oct. 8, 1978, eight unexpected guests arrived at the Delta Upsilon (D.U.) final club’s punch dinner...
...alums of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine, released Animal House in July 1978. ’Poonsters drew on Harvard stereotypes of their Ivy rival to chronicle the drunken exploits of the fictitious Delta House Fraternity as it battles the school’s dean, who wants to expel the social club from the Dartmouth campus...
...Lines," about the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company and its operations battling Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah [IRAQ, May 10], drew a number of letters from veterans who believed that the company's name wasn't Easy but Echo. According to the military's phonetic alphabet?Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo?E Company would logically be called Echo Company. So why isn't it? As the Marine Corps News reported in January 2003, "The Marines of the current Echo Company have recently been given the green light ... to refer to their company once again, in all but official matters...
...million to expand Charles de Gaulle. The new 2E terminal - and a nearby S3 complex set to open in March 2007 - were designed to bring flocks of new passengers to Paris by offering sleek, interconnecting structures catering to the expanding business plans of Air France and partners including Delta and Korean Air. "Air France is getting more and more successful, with bigger and more significant alliances," says David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flight International magazine. "It has the capacity to expand - but not if its terminals fall down. This is going to seriously curtail the rate at which...