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Menand is the co-chair of a six-member committee that has been meeting since June to draft a revised set of recommendations for the future of general education at the College. The committee’s preliminary report is expected to be released within weeks...
Stefan Behnisch unveiled a draft of the first glass temple this week, and it already appears that he is making all the right choices. “I think every time has its challenges and every time has its answers,” Behnisch said. “There is a right time for brick and masonry and there is a right time for glass...
...every G.I. was as gung-ho as Sarra. In a no-draft America, young people joined the service to get into college, or out of the ghetto, and recruitment painted a grand canvas of career opportunities. Killing, getting killed - this was not part of the pitch. Basic training drilled the killing game into young brains. Teach them to treat the enemy as you would a sniper in Grand Theft Auto. Instill the reflex to fire at a moving target. Foster team spirit with marching songs. Instead of the golden oldie "I don?t know but I been told...," have them...
...called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally. "You're not just...
...last week in the State, one of South Carolina's largest newspapers. "Unfortunately, our senior Senator has moved from disappointing to downright dangerous." Some Republicans are encouraging wealthy shopping-center developer Thomas Ravenel to take Graham on in the 2008 G.O.P. primary and have circulated an online petition to draft him. Ravenel--who has called Graham "the third Senator from New York"--says he has "no intention" of running against him, but that could change...