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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...
Hoster's accusation could do more damage to the Army's image than the multiple probes now under way of drill sergeants who allegedly assaulted female trainees at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground and other bases. Last week General Reimer told a Senate committee that among those 170 trainers there are "a few bad apples." But Hoster's allegations, if true, suggest a more pervasive rot. "Because of Aberdeen, the non-commissioned officers are the part of the Army under the most scrutiny for sexual harassment," says military sociologist Charles Moskos. "When the sergeant major of the Army...
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...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Missouri: The Army announced it has suspended 12 drill instructors over the last six weeks at Fort Leonard Wood as part of its continuing probe into sexual harassment and sexual abuse charges. That brings to 28 the total number of suspensions at one of the army's largest basic training facilities, where hundreds of instructors are stationed. TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson notes that the report is a sign that the Army is now enforcing sexual harassment regs to the letter. "I think, compared to a year ago, the whole military is a little more on tenterhooks...