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This lethal snafu is likely to aggravate charges that the Air Force has tended to distort and cover up information in its investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots...
...city's goal for minority officials is 13.1percent of the total, and for police and fire,25.5 percent of the total, But some say the goalsfor each EEO category distort the real picture...
...want to take the message to the press andelsewhere in the U.S. that they are welcome todiffer with us and do anything, excerpt lie,distort and misrepresent [What we say,]" Jardinesays. "The press cannot say just anything--that'snot freedom of the press...
...adjusted on a case-by-case basis to guarantee that the privacy rights of students involved in Ad Board proceedings are fully protected. The description of a particular case can be made more or less explicit depending on the situation. While selective editing in the interest of confidentiality could distort the proceedings, such a record would certainly be an improvement on the current situation...
...women who, in person, were much the same as they were online. That is often not the case. The disembodied voices that whisper through cyberspace can often be manufactured identities that can disguise, distort or amplify aspects of a user's personality. Fortunately, only a relative few -- Lotharios who woo indiscriminately, for example, or pederasts who prey on vulnerable children -- have a devious and potentially dangerous intent. Most Net users are more likely to project aspects of the person they wish they could be. Paulina Borsook, author of Love over the Wires, calls this ``selective lying by omission''; psychologist Kenneth...