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...More seriously, some army officers, including a major-general, were sacked from service for disobeying orders. Their group had been deployed to Kuwait on the eve of the war for security duties. After arriving there, they discovered this involved protecting American soldiers. They refused, and were summoned home to be cashiered...
...internal Bush administration memorandum purportedly written by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and leaked to the New York Times on the eve of the talks calls for the U.S. to actively pursue the overthrow of the North Korean regime. That won't have helped Kelley reassure Pyongyang. Nor was it intended to - the hawks had reportedly opposed sending Kelley to Beijing, preferring to send one of their own, Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton who has a well-earned reputation as an ultra-hawkish bomb-thrower...
...strictly on a theory that was dreamt up by this lead detective within the first eight hours, and they've pursued it backward from there and they have neglected so many good leads. Chief (Roy) Wasden made a comment during his news conference that on the evening before Christmas Eve, Laci's mother had spoken to Laci at 8:15 and that's the last time anyone saw Laci. Not true. There are several people who saw Laci...
...most memorable pieces was a clever bluesy take on Original Sin written and performed by Alvin E. Hough ’06, Robert P. Young ’06 and Salmon. With slyly tongue-in-cheek lyrics, the piece chronicles an argument over dinner between Adam and Eve. She doesn’t want to prepare a meal, and sends him out to find an alternative food that doesn’t need to be cooked...
...profoundly disturbing that on the eve of his new job, Gross appears to agree. He seems ambivalent about doing Lewis’s old job along with his own—and who can blame him? Gross is clearly eager to get started on the curricular review, to devote all his time to this immense task, and he deserves the time and resources to do that job well. By saddling him with the combined deanship, Kirby has sabotaged Gross’ plans for curricular review—even as he engineers a system guaranteed to distract from student concerns...