Word: drilling
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...abuse at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week a military jury there began deliberating whether to convict Sergeant Delmar Simpson of raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack down on sexual harassment. Recruiters and their customers tend to be far from military headquarters, and oversight is minimal. The isolation creates a bond among recruiters that can lead...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Former Drill Sergeant Delmar Simpson stood straight at attention as a military juror quickly read the verdict against him: Guilty on 43 of 54 charges, including raping six trainees a total of 18 times. Although 11 other men face charges in the Aberdeen investigation, Simpson's was the most egregious case in the military's worst sex scandal since 1991's Tailhook. Jurors deliberated for five days to return a verdict which ultimately came down to a question of abusing authority: Did Simpson use the sheer power that a drill instructor wields over trainees to intimidate them...
EMILY N. TABAK '00 was forced to go outside her Greenough dorm in pajamas and wet hair due to a fire drill during the blizzard on April 1. Tabak said she had been in the shower when the bell rang. "It was really cold out. My hair froze with shampoo in it," said Tabak of the incident...
...right. Modern history teems with tales of the potential usurpation of mankind by its own technology: John Henry vs. the steam drill. Dr. Frankenstein vs. the monster. Linda Hamilton vs. the Terminator. The genius of chess lies in the sublime tension between logical analysis (call it Truth) and human intuition (call it Beauty). Our fascination with Deep Blue derives from fearful wonderment at the possibility that computers, which have already surpassed us at the former, may soon produce some chilling emulation of the latter. Kasparov, the latest standard bearer in humanity's war against our own obsolescence, is stoical...
Unlike the rookie soldiers who came forward at Aberdeen, Hoster, 39, is no raw recruit. A Bronze Star winner and ex-drill sergeant, she was one of the youngest sergeant majors ever. Hoster told TIME last week that McKinney called her in May 1995 and, even though he didn't know her well, asked her to be his p.r. adviser. Within weeks of taking the job, Hoster says, his "Jekyll and Hyde behavior"--personable and professional in public, enraged and profane in private--turned her life into "a living hell." Things only got worse in March when Zuberi...