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...something he did not even attempt to hide from superiors. In late December 2005, for example, Green had a one-on-one meeting about his mental state with the brigade's commander, Colonel Todd Ebel. A colonel personally counseling a private is, it is worth noting, an exceedingly unusual event. During their talk, Green wanted to know, "Why can't we just shoot them all?" A few days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, for a combat-stress counseling session. During that meeting, Green declared several times that he was obsessed with...
...those in Green's chain of command above the rank of captain. Green's platoon leader (a lieutenant) and company commander (a captain) were indeed removed from their positions in the late summer of 2006. But those dismissals had as much to do with a nearly contemporaneous but unrelated event in which three of Green's platoon mates were abducted and killed by insurgents as they did with the rape and murders. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...Hughes was called to Torino, Italy to compete in the Winter Olympics, where she placed seventh overall. Hughes—then a junior in high school—had previously been named as an alternate for the event after winning the bronze medal at the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships...
...event, co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, featured a conversation between Jarrett and Kennedy School professor David R. Gergen...
...Politics is a mixture of policy and personality,” Gergen said in an interview after the event. “If you don’t get the personal angle, you don’t understand what’s really happening...